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Shift in power on the horizon in
Washington?
Ruben Ramirez (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:15:15 AM
Republicans stand poised to gain
substantial influence in Congress,
putting at stake billions of dollars
in investment as a shift among
power brokers throws legislative
initiatives old and new into doubt.
Reuters Washington Summit will
bring together an influential line-
up of insiders just weeks before
Americans cast their votes,
promising a must-read stream of
exclusive news on the outlook for
Congress and President Barack
Obama's agenda. Editors and
correspondents from the Reuters
Washington bureau are sitting
down with senior lawmakers,
including GOP heavyweights in
line for leadership, and regulators
whose implementation of Wall
Obama Gives Populist, Firebreathing, Anti-Capitalism Speech Town Hall
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:13:05 PM
Street and healthcare reform could
be complicated by a change in
control on Capitol Hill.
The Summit will generate
exclusive stories, investable
insights, online videos and blog
postings, which will be
immediately available only to
Thomson Reuters clients during
the Summit. Key interviews will
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Owens Corning Warns of
Weak Demand
Brent Archer (BloggingStocks) bearish hedged play on OC.
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:00:00 PM This morning, OC opened at
$24.15. So far today the stock has
Filed under: Major Movement, hit a high of $24.25 and a low of
Forecasts, Bad News, Options, $23.05. As of 12:10, OC is
T e c h n i c a l A n a l y s i s O w e n s trading at $23.51, down $1.25 (-
Corning ( OC- option chain) stock 5.0%). The chart for OC looks
is trading lower today after the bearish.
company warned that it can no Continue reading Owens Corning
longer meet the high end of its Warns of Weak Demand
2010 earnings outlook, as roofing Owens Corning Warns of Weak
shingles demand is down 35% in Demand originally appeared on
the third-quarter compared to the BloggingStocks on Mon, 20 Sep
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The Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Is About Philips: Still A Bright

To Wreak Havoc In The Search Ad Idea
Joseph Lazzaro
Market (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG) (BloggingStocks)
Nick Saint (Business Insider) Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:30:00 PM

Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:36:01 PM Filed under: Stocks to Buy The

future is still bright for
Advertisers beware: when Amsterdam-based conglomerate
Microsoft finally begins powering and light bulb maker Koninklijke
all Yahoo searches next month, Philips Electronics, commonly
the cost of clicks will go through known as Philips ( PHG), first
the roof, and the market for search were up 8% in the fourth quarter
discussed here on June 2, 2009 at of 2009.
ads will be extremely volatile for a price of $20.30.
weeks, according to a report from Continue reading Philips: Still A
Philips' stock has made it though Bright Idea
ad holding company GroupM. a trying summer for the stock
Over the long term, GroupM Philips: Still A Bright Idea
market in decent shape. Share's originally appeared on
expects the search merger to drive have traded in a roughly $30-35
up cost-per-clicks (CPCs) by BloggingStocks on Mon, 20 Sep
range, with volatility, but appear 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see
about 13% for non-branded to have put in a bottom at/near
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rates on Bing. Philips, one of the largest lighting
Many advertisers currently bid Philips- BloggingStocks-
/electronics and medical Business- Investing- Stocks and
for keywords on Bing or Yahoo, diagnostic equipment, will likely
but not both. So when the two Bonds
The existing markets for Yahoo won't know what clicks from the benefit from the emerging market
markets are combined, there will development wave, where sales
and Bing ads have been around new, combined audience are
be more advertisers bidding for
for a long time, and are fairly worth to them.
each keyword. When these
auctions get bigger, prices tend to
rise.
stable. When the two markets
merge, advertisers will be bidding
Via AdAge, here's the report:
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7-Inch Tablets: How Pixel Qi's Screen
Will Go Mainstream
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:26:04 PM
We've been hearing about Pixel
Qi's half-E-ink, half-LCD tech for
ages, but with new info on its
development it looks like it's
about to burst onto the
mainstream. Seven-inch tablet
PCs may earn Pixel Qi some
deserved limelight.
Pixel Qi and its tech are
intimately intertwined with the
XO PC; there's even a tussle over
which tech was better. So Pixel Qi
came up with a half-and-half
solution.
E-ink's history is simple--it's
gone from strength to strength and
now rocks inside every Amazon
Kindle device. Meanwhile Pixel
Qi's system hasn't hit the
mainstream at all, despite much
promise. The most that's
happened is that a DIY kit for
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Adens Sisters: Precious
Metals and Resource
Currencies
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:30:00 PM
Filed under: Major Movement,
International Markets,
Newsletters, Mutual Funds, ETF
Investing, Commodities
"Gold surged to a record high;
and it's not just gold; silver, the
other precious metals, and the
Continue reading Adens Sisters:
Precious Metals and Resource
resource currencies have all been
swept up in the bubbling rise,"
note resource sector specialists
Currencies
Adens Sisters: Precious Metals
adapting your netbook's screen mode screen that'll hit mass and Resource Currencies
Mary Anne and Pamela Aden. originally appeared on
has been released, and that has production in the first half of
The sisters and co-editors of The BloggingStocks on Mon, 20 Sep
been selling pretty well. 2011, with industry-ready samples
Aden Forecast explains, "The 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see
But the company hasn't been arriving at the end of this year.
gold price is now very strong in a our terms for use of feeds.
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announced that it's completed its news. Because the way the
by staying above $1240. Precious metal- Exchange-traded
first round of Series B funding-- screens work means they're good
"Gold's next target is the $1300- fund- Gold as an investment-
giving it the necessary cash at sunlight readability (E-ink's big
$1350 level. Silver is impressive; BloggingStocks- Market trend
injection to further develop its plus) and low power consumption
its jump up in the last three weeks
technology and the company's (for battery longevity), but they
may be the start of a super rise.
business model. It also looks like can also show full-color graphics
part of the holdup in the tech's and have a refresh rate that's good
arrival has been a constriction in enough for video (a key strength
Crazy Space-Saving Designs for the
the manufacturing-supply chain, of tablet PCs, like the iPad). Homes of the Future
and the DIY kit was a simple way Seven inches is also emerging as
Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top your content and you're reading it
to get the tech out on sale without one of the sizes of choice for the Stories)
having to promise delivery of coming tide of Android and on someone else's site, please read
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capacity is widely available." To keep up with this news,
The company's also announced follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
that it's developing a 7-inch dual-
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Walmart Goes Solar With 30 Thin Film Installations

Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) will also generate up to 22.5 truly Walmart-sized effort toward
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:51:42 PM million kilowatt hours of clean achieving the renewable energy
energy per year—enough to goal. But…with more than 2,700
We've watched with increasing p o w e r 1,750 homes supercenters whose combined
interest in recent years as Walmart a n n u a l l y — a n d a v o i d t h e roof area alone exceeds 500
works to shed its image as a production of over 11,650 metric million square feet. Walmart still
heartless corporate behemoth and tons of CO2 equivalent each year. represents extraordinary potential
makes a legitimate attempt to Why thin film? The one micron- for on-site renewable energy
embrace sustainability. The thick semiconducters found on generation and commensurate
company has impressed us with thin film solar panels are less GHG savings.
its sustainability consortium, energy-intensive to produce than Over the next two years, Walmart
progressive recycling policies, crystalline silicon wafers. They're and the EDF will evaluate the thin
and now a thin film solar initiative light weight, work well in fog and film pilot. If all goes well, expect
that will see panels installed on up smog, and lie completely flat, so even more solar installations on
to 30 Walmart sites in California they don't interfere with skylights. Walmart roofs all over the
energy projects. The EDF thin film installations. And even
and Arizona. The Environmental Defense country.
explains: Since the thin film when Walmart completes new
The panels will be installed, Fund, which has been working Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
project was first discussed in solar installations on all 30 new
operated and maintained by with Walmart on a number of Twitter or by email.
2007, other retailers have initiated sites, they (at last count) have
SolarCity, and will provide 20% green initiatives, hopes that the
and implemented a wide variety some 8,350 facilities to go. In
to 30% of the energy needs where solar panel installation spree
of solar projects, including some truth, we’re still waiting for a
they are used. Walmart's panels bodes well for future renewable

Librarians Gone Wild: Violating Netflix Terms of Use!

David Zax (Fast Company) solution." The other week, an follow the terms of agreement,"
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:32:38 PM acquisitions librarian at Concordia he said, adding that Netflix
College in New York blogged "frowns upon" the liberties taken
Netflix isn't going to sue, but it a b o u t t h e b l e s s i n g o f h e r by librarians.
wants you to know it's very, very institution's double eight-disc-at-a So on one side we have librarians
disappointed. -time subscription, which she saying they are using the service,
For some time now, academic wrote saved her library $3,000. and don't expect legal
librarians have been resorting to Though one commenter wondered repercussions; and on the other
Netflix to plug shortages in their "how you got this past legal for side we have Netflix saying they
media holdings. In fact, they have your university," she responded know libraries are using the
been thoroughly above-board that there had been "no legal service, and won't be suing.
about it; even the distinguished repercussions." Maybe, then, the best course of
journal Library Trends ran an Whoops. Turns out Netflix isn't subscriptions and expects its communications Steve Swasey action would have been for both
article about "Netflix in an actually cool with libraries using services to be limited to personal told the Chronicle of Higher sides to just follow the rule
Academic Library" last winter; the service and doesn't want early consumption. "We just don't want Education recently. "We normally observed in libraries:
author Ciara Healy wrote in the a d o p t i n g l i b r a r i a n s t o b e to be pursuing libraries," Netflix's appreciate libraries and we value Shhhhh!
abstract that "Netflix turned out to encouraging others to do so. vice president of corporate them, but we expect that they
be an excellent, cost-effective Netflix doesn't offer institutional
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Apple Buys Polar Rose, Possible Eye On Face Recognition In

iPhones
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Arctic Rose is Polar Rose's own camera, positively ID you as the
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:37:58 PM face recognition tech, and it's been phone's registered owner, and
built into three different product then have you tap in a pin before
Apple's reportedly buying out all offerings, according to Swedish the wireless payment is
s h a r e s i n S w e d i s h f a c e Mac site Mac1--one of which is completed. It's not the most
recognition company Polar Rose. Android compatible. reliable form of biometrics, but
The company has similar tech to By buying Polar Rose, Apple can for this purpose—particularly in a
that Apple already uses in OS X's shut off one avenue for easy face double-layered PIN system—it's
iPhoto app, so what's the intended r e c o g n i t i o n i n t e g r a t i o n i n quick, good enough, and requires
use for the new system? Inside competing platform Android, and no added hardware (like
iPhones, possibly. And to shut rocket-boost its own efforts at fingerprint sensors) inside or
Android out of the game. building the systems into its peripheral to the iPhone's core
Macs already benefit from pretty iPhone. Apart from all sorts of systems.
clever face recognition software accessibility purposes and auto- something we know Apple has of protection for Apple's plans to To keep up with this news,
that's built into iPhoto; it adds a person tagging benefits that would been working on, and reinvent the smartphone as a follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
w h o l e n e w a u t o - t a g g i n g come with app integration into aggressively patenting. wireless-enabled credit card. The
dimension to your digital family social networks like Facebook and Which brings us to one ultimate trick would be simple—scan your
album that lets you quickly surf to Twitter, it has potential security use for face recognition, in a face from a live photo snapped
pictures of a particular person. benefits. And login security is security sense: an extra dimension then and there by the phone's

Apple, Facebook, And Google Go To War (GOOG, AAPL)

Dan Frommer (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:24:00 PM
For more than a year, we've been
closely tracking Apple's growing
war with Google.
But there's a new battle front to
watch, now: Facebook, which
continues to grow like crazy, is
quickly becoming a threat to
everyone.
These three companies are the
new titans of Silicon Valley, and
watching them duke it out is
going to be the greatest show in
tech for years to come.
Apple and Google probably
spend more time thinking about
each other -- and now Facebook --
than they think about long-time
foe Microsoft, which is in decline.
The latest moves from all the
companies revolve around social
networking and mobile
technology.
Facebook is working on mobile
phone software that could
potentially threaten Apple and
Google. (Though if Facebook is
using Google's Android as the
basis for its software, it could also
theoretically benefit Google.)
Apple is working on social
networking services without
Facebook's help.
And everyone is working on
search. Click here to flip through
the battle fronts
Join the conversation about this
story »
See Also:
• 10 Ways Google Is Trying To
Kill Microsoft
• 10 Ways The iPhone Changed
Smartphones Forever
• 15 Things You Can Remote
Control With Your iPhone

Zac Efron Would Switch Places With The Situation

PopSugar (PopSugar) When asked which celebrity Zac Situation's shoes. Watch an all-
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:20:00 PM Efron would want to spend the new PopSugar Rush Update now!
day as, the Charlie St. Cloud star said he'd love to walk in The
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The Layoffs Begin: Bank Of America
Will Cut 5% Of Capital Markets
Employees Before Bonus Season (BAC)
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:34:48 PM
Bank of America's Tom Montag
told BAC's capital markets group
to cut 5% of its job force, says
Charlie Gasparino.
Apparently Montag's move to cut
staff before bonus season is
particularly pissing off employees
in the unlucky unit.
From FOX:
Though the cuts are said to beOne More Way To Make
modest in size — around 5%, and
areas of the bank’s capital
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only in certain profit-challenged
Eddie Vedder Marries in Hawaii Brooklyn, Sell It In Tacoma
With Shirtless Jack Johnson and
Bikini-Wearing Gabby Reece!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:00:00 PM
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
gathered his friends in Waikiki
over the weekend to celebrate as
he tied the knot with longtime
girlfriend Jill McCormick. Tim
Robbins was called upon to
perform the ceremony, but the
real action took place yesterday
afternoon at the beach. Gabby
Reece broke out her bikini to
swim with her shirtless husband,
Laird Hamilton, and musician
markets unit — the move to trim
jobs by capital markets chief Tom
Montag is seen as significant
inside the bank, people close to
the matter say.
The cuts are expected to be
announced this week and will
impact trading desks.
With volume on Wall Street light
all year, and spreads coming in,
there's been a lot of talk about an
inevitable wave of headcount
reductions at banks. It's
beginning.
Join the conversation about this
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BP says oil spill
compensation
payout rate soars
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:04:34 PM
Fire boat response crews battle
the blazing remnants of the off
shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon,
off Louisiana, in this April 21,
2010, handout file photo. With a
final shot of cement, BP Plc
permanently ''killed'' the runaway
Macondo well in the Gulf of
Mexico that had unleashed the
worst oil spill in U.S. history, the
top U.S. spill official said on
September 19, 2010. The well
flowed unchecked for 87 days
after an April 20 explosion aboard
the Deepwater Horizon rig killed
Vincent Fernando, CFA spread. Boom. (Theoretically) 11 workers and unleashed a
(Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:26:00 PM
It won't be long before marijuana torrent of oil that marred the
futures one day help us converge coasts of four Gulf Coast states
the disparate prices of this and spurred a moratorium on all
Who said Google was turning budding market, and if the current new U.S. offshore drilling.
evil? t r e n d t o w a r d s l e g a l i z a t i o n Credit: Reuters/U.S. Coast Guard
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Cotton Prices Surge on
Supply Fears
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Rumors, Market
Matters, Commodities
Don't look now, but the shirt in
your back could be worth more
today. Why? Cotton prices are
surging due to supply shortages.
Rumors often drive commodity
prices. Pakistan is experiencing
the worst flooding in history.
Pakistan is the world's fourth
largest grower of cotton. Another
rumor of frost in China added to
the rally. China is the world's
largest cotton producer. India is
placing high export duties on
cotton, thus fueling the rally,
according to data reported by the
The Future of Reading: Touchscreens
on a Plane
Tim Carmody (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 9:52:00 AM
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Obamas Join Worship Service at
Episcopal Church
(Society)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 6:48:07 AM
President Barack Obama and his
family made a rare appearance at
church on Sunday. The first
family attended Sunday morning
service at St. John's
Financial Times. Church.(Photo: AP Images /
Continue reading Cotton Prices Charles Dharapak)
Surge on Supply Fears President Barack Obama and first
lady Michelle Obama leave St.
Cotton Prices Surge on Supply
John's Episcopal Church as Rev.
Fears originally appeared on
BloggingStocks on Mon, 20 Sep Luis Leon follows after services
2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 19,
our terms for use of feeds. 2010.
Permalink| Email this| Comments With daughters Malia and Sasha,
C h i n a - I n d i a - C o t t o n - Obama and his wife, Michelle,
BloggingStocks- Financial Times strolled across Lafayette Square to
join an hourlong service at the
nearby Episcopal church.
It was the first time in months
that the president worshipped in
public.
The Rev. Dr. Luis Leon preached
your content and you're reading it that morning on the parable of the
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percent of Americans believe
Obama is a Muslim, up from 11
percent.
Meanwhile, 43 percent do not
know his religion.
Following the release of the poll,
the White House and several
pastors, including Joel Hunter of
Longwood, Fla., assured the
limitations of our surroundings."
"Life has limitations and you have
public that Obama is committed
to Christ.
a choice about how you choose to
More than a year into his
follow the Christ," he preached.
presidency, Obama has chosen
"If there is no change to how you
live your life, you have to ask
not to join any specific church
yourself the question 'Have I
community. He has said that he
committed myself at all to follow
does not want to be disruptive to
the Christ or not?'" he posed.
the city or to churchgoers. He and
"I think the most honest thing that
his family have visited a few local
we can do when we commit
churches during such occasions as
Easter and have at times attended
ourselves to follow the Christ is
Evergreen Chapel at Camp David,
this: to commit as much or
the president's country residence
ourselves as we can to God and to
the risen Christ," the rector stated.
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Recession pain still real, despite end, Obama says (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) He spoke shortly after the where we are right now." "We're constantly asking, 'Is what administrations has resulted in an
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:01:14 PM National Bureau of Economic "Is this my new reality?" she we're doing working as well as it estimated $1.5 trillion deficit for
Research, a private panel of asked. could?'" the budget year that ends at the
WASHINGTON – President e c o n o m i s t s t h a t d a t e s t h e Obama told her, "My goal is not Harwood at one point asked end of September.
Barack Obama said Monday he b e g i n n i n g s a n d e n d s o f to convince you that everything is Obama how serious he was about Obama was asked by Harwood
doesn't care that the Great recessions, said the downturn that where it ought to be. It's not." deficit reduction. Polls show that whether we was willing to debate
Recession has been declared over began in December 2007 ended in Still, Obama said that things were Americans are deeply concerned Boehner, who would probably
by a group of economists. For the June 2009. At 18 months, that "moving in the right direction" about the government's rising become House speaker if
millions of people who are out of makes it the longest recession under policies he has put in place. deficit, and Republicans have Republicans take back the House
work or otherwise struggling, he since World War II. Republican Party chief Michael repeatedly tried to make it a of Representatives in November.
said, "it's still very real for them." "Something that took ten years to Steele panned Obama's TV campaign issue, calling for more He indicated such a debate was
Obama denied that he was anti- create is going to take a little performance. "Once again, government belt tightening. unlikely. "It's premature to say
business or anti-Wall Street in his more time to solve," Obama said. President Obama trotted out the "I can't give tax cuts to the top 2 that John Boehner is going to be
economic proposals, commenting "Even though economists may say same old worn-out reassurances percent of Americans ... and lower speaker of the House," Obama
under close questioning during a that the recession officially ended on the economy, but Americans the deficit at the same time," said.
town hall-style meeting broadcast last year, obviously for the are still waiting for the promised Obama said. "At some point, the A member of the audience who
live on CNBC. millions of people who are still recovery that never arrived," numbers just don't work." said he was a hedge fund manager
He offered a mixed verdict on the out of work, people who have Steele said. "The first thing you do in a hole is and a Harvard Law School
growing tea party, calling its seen their home values decline, A 30-year old law school not dig it deeper." classmate of Obama said many on
s k e p t i c i s m o f g o v e r n m e n t people who are struggling to pay graduate who said he couldn't find Obama pressed his effort to cast Wall Street feel as if he's treating
"healthy...That's in our DNA, the bills day to day, it's still very a job and couldn't even make Democrats as fighters for the them like a pinata. "We certainly
right?" real for them," Obama said. interest payments on his student middle class and Republicans as feel like we've been whacked by a
But, he added, "The challenge for He participated in the hour-long loans told Obama he was inspired protectors of "millionaires and stick."
the tea party movement is to s e s s i o n b e f o r e h e a d i n g t o by Obama's 2008 campaign but billionaires" and special interests. "If you're making a billion dollars
identify specifically 'What would Pennsylvania to raise money for "that inspiration is dying away." He has called on Congress to a year after a very bad financial
you do?'" to help turn around the Democratic Senate candidate Joe "The most important thing we can allow Bush-era tax cuts to expire crisis where 8 million people lost
economy and produce jobs. Sestak, who is locked in a tight do right now is grow our on schedule at the end of this year their jobs and small businesses
"It's not enough just to say, 'Get race for a seat considered a must- economy," Obama said. "What we for those with household incomes can't get loans, then I think that
control of government.' I think it's win for the president's party. The can't do is go back to the same old above $250,000 — but to extend you shouldn't be feeling put
important for you to say, 'You seat is currently in Democratic things we were doing." them for everybody else. upon," Obama said.
know, I'm willing to cut veterans' hands, but polls show it to be a CNBC's John Harwood, the Obama says it would cost $700 "Most folks on Main Street feel
benefits or Social Security tight race. moderator, asked Obama if he had billion over ten years to extend like they've been beat upon," he
benefits or I'm willing to see these The group assembled for the any plans to replace his two top the cuts for those in the upper said, and "there's a big chunk of
taxes go up.'" session included large and small economic advisers — Treasury income range, a group that makes the country that feels I have been
The government can't simply cut b u s i n e s s o w n e r s , t e a c h e r s , Secretary Timothy Geithner and up roughly 2 percent of taxpayers. too soft on Wall Street. What I've
taxes on the nation's wealthiest students and unemployed people. chief economic adviser Lawrence What Obama wants to do would tried to do is just be practical."
people "and magically think A woman who said she was the Summers. House Republican cost about $3 trillion over ten He said his policies have not
things are going to work out," he chief financial officer for a leader John Boehner has called years. been "extremist" or "anti-
said. veterans' service organization told for Obama to fire both of them, A combination of the Bush tax business."
Focusing on the poor economic O b a m a , " I ' m e x h a u s t e d o f contending their economic advice cuts, the wars in Iraq and This entry passed through the
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Japan urges calm after China severs contacts (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) 2006 term of former Prime China's Foreign Ministry, name because she was not pursue its claims on territory in
Submitted at 9/20/2010 5:24:53 AM Minister Junichiro Koizumi, meanwhile, said Japan's actions authorized to speak to the media. the South China Sea and tap
whose repeated visits to a war had severely damaged relations. Japan's Foreign Ministry energy resources in the East
BEIJING – Japan urged China to shrine in Japan enraged China. "If Japan acts willfully, making complained about the trip's China Sea.
remain calm and not inflame their They have raised questions about mistake after mistake, China will suspension, which was to have In a possible sign of further
diplomatic spat further Monday cooperation between the nations take strong countermeasures, and started Tuesday. turbulence ahead, Shikata, the
after Beijing severed high-level at international forums such as all the consequences will be borne "Such a youth exchange program Japanese spokesman, said the
contacts and then called off a visit this week's summit in New York by the Japanese side," Chinese is meaningful to establish stable government was monitoring
by Japanese youth over the on United Nations goals to fight Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Japan-China relations," the reports that China could be
detention of a Chinese fishing poverty, which Japanese Prime Zhaoxu said. ministry said in a statement. "The preparing to begin drilling in a
boat captain near disputed islands. Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese The fishing boat's 14 Chinese last-minute decision by the disputed East China Sea gas
China's actions pushed already- Premier Wen Jiabao are attending. crew were released last week, but Chinese side is extremely deposit in violation of a 2008
tense relations to a new low, and While competitors, the the captain's detention for further inappropriate and regrettable, and agreement between the two
showed Beijing's willingness to economies of the China and questioning — pending a decision we have made an appeal to the nations.
play hardball with its Asian rival Japan, the world's second- and about whether to press charges — Chinese side." "It would be unavoidable for us to
on issues of territorial integrity, third-biggest economies, have has inflamed ever-present anti- Liang Yunxiang, a professor at consider taking a countermeasure
which include sparring with Japan become more intertwined in Japanese sentiment in China. Peking University's School of if we confirm unilateral violations
over natural gas fields in the East recent years and there have been Beijing announced the suspension International Studies, said Beijing by the other party," Shikata said,
China Sea. no signs so far the dispute would of contacts shortly after a was compelled to respond without giving details on what
Late Sunday, Beijing said it was hurt business relations. Japanese court approved a 10-day vigorously because of the measures are being considered.
suspending ministerial and Kan's spokesman, Noriyuki extension of captain Zhan demands of public opinion. China's Foreign Ministry had no
provincial-level contacts, halting Shikata, told The Associated Qixiong's detention on Sunday. China must also protest Japan's immediate comment on the
talks on aviation issues and Press that China had not yet given An official with the All-China punishing the captain under reports.
postponing meetings to discuss formal notice of the suspension of Youth Federation responsible for Japanese law, since neglecting to ___
energy-related issues, including a contacts and exchanges. dealings with Japan told The do so would be tantamount to Associated Press writer Mari
second round of talks with Japan "We call for calm and prudent Associated Press the suspension accepting Japanese sovereignty Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed
on the gas deposits. action by China in order not to of the youth trip was "mainly claims over the islands, he said. to this report.
On Monday, an official Chinese further escalate the situation," about the Diaoyu islands incident" "If Japan releases the captain now, This entry passed through the
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Philippines calls for charges over hijacking fiasco

(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) charges could be filed, to ensure broadcasters, Aquino said. opportunities to shoot the VLC Media Player for
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MANILA (AFP) – Philippine want to make decisions regarding referred to the country's three investigators concluded all eight video codec worries
President Benigno Aquino said on such important matters without a biggest television networks who tourists had been shot by decidedly lessen
Monday that a fact-finding panel thorough review. I will study their all covered the hostage crisis live, Mendoza, despite earlier Ross Miller (Engadget)
has recommended charges against findings upon my return, and possibly giving information to the suggestions police bullets could
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:06:00 PM
top officials for a tourist bus decide accordingly," he added. hostage-taker. have hit some of the victims.
hijacking fiasco that left eight Sacked police officer Rolando Aquino said the broadcasters had The incident had enraged Well, would you look at that?
Hong Kong hostages dead. Mendoza seized a busload of hampered the operation by Chinese and Hong Kong officials Ever since Apple added some
He said a former national police tourists in central Manila on interviewing the hijacker via his who demanded a full explanation. leeway( and snark!) to its App
chief and other senior police August 23 in a desperate attempt mobile phone, preventing The president said that a copy of Store submission rules, the
officials, an undersecretary of the to get his job back and get himself government negotiators from the report had already been sent to approved apps have become
interior, the Manila mayor and cleared on extortion charges. contacting him. the Chinese embassy but that he increasingly more interesting:
two broadcasters were among a Police eventually shot Mendoza The three largest television had not yet received any response. Google Voice clients, a
dozen people who could face dead, but not until after he had networks in the Philippines are Aquino said he hoped the release Commodore 64 emulator, and
charges following the report. killed eight hostages and wounded ABS-CBN, GMA and ABC. of the report would satisfy the now the VLC Media Player with
Parts of the findings published seven more as the drama played Extracts from the report, posted Chinese and Hong Kong claims to support "nearly all
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indictment of the Philippine world. repeatedly blamed the diplomatic relations. minutes with the program already,
police response to the hijacking, The investigating panel which "incompetence" and "negligence" "We have responded completely and while it's import method is
accusing the force of negligence, compiled the report -- headed by of the officials who handled and fully to all the requests they reminiscent of CineXPlayer(i.e.
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gather intelligence as the crisis recommended charges be filed taker and the police assault after He has pledged to send a high- rich interface is much prettier.
unfolded. against former national police he began shooting. level delegation to Hong Kong, Official launch date is tomorrow,
" W e a r e c o m m i t t e d t o chief Jesus Verzosa, Aquino said. It also cited "insubordination" by where he will try to assuage fury but we've had no problem
implementing the necessary Verzosa has retired from the force the top police officials, who opted in a city with a 200,000-strong downloading from the US and UK
c h a n g e s t o u p g r a d e t h e since the incident. not to follow Aquino's orders to Philippine community. stores already, so go ahead and
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Emotional Intelligence Could Predict Photokina: Snapshot of

Employee Happiness camera trends (roundup)
(CNET News.com)
(LiveScience.com) Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:09:59 PM
Photokina show. Here's a look at
the large-sensor, retro-styled,
enthusiast-oriented camera.
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) University of Haifa in Israel. provided by BusinessNewsDaily, At the Photokina show, going on (Posted in Photo Galleries by
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:35:06 AM Meisler examined the effects of a sister site to LiveScience. i n C o l o g n e , G e r m a n y , t h e Stephen Shankland)
emotional intelligence on office LiveScience.com chronicles the spotlight shines brightly on high- September 20, 2010 5:04 AM
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suggests that happiness is linked Employees who did not analyze that often pop up around scientific that the user interface on its new lens lineup A major lens overhaul
to a quantifiable attribute known and control their emotions, she discoveries and deliver short, NX100 interchangeable-lens yields two new supertelephoto
as "emotional intelligence." The c o n c l u d e d , d e m o n s t r a t e d provocative explanations with a cameras will make the company lenses and two prototypes. The
implication is that if emotional unfavorable attitudes such as certain wit and style. Check out an imaging power. SLR powerhouse clearly wants to
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Obama says times still hard

(Reuters: Top News) "I'm one of your middle class Representatives and have an vilifying them and this sense of every turn. Who does it reflect
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:38:25 PM Americans. And quite frankly I'm outside shot at the Senate. outrage is shared on Wall Street, on? Him, unfortunately. I’m not
exhausted. I'm exhausted of All 435 seats in the House and 37 which fiercely opposed his shake- saying all of his decisions/
President Obama walks towards defending you, defending your of the 100 Senate seats will be up of financial regulations that proposals are good. But you’d be
Air Force One at John F. Kennedy administration, defending the contested. became law earlier this year. a fool to think that the way
Airport in New York, September mantle of change I voted for, and With his poll numbers under "I represent the Wall Street politics is run by Obama’s
16, 2010. deeply disappointed with where pressure, Obama's supporters community," said one man who opposition does anything to help
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young we are right now," she said. warned he was losing the runs a hedge fund. "We have felt the country.
By Alister Bull and Caren Bohan Obama stuck to his guns, arguing communications battle with like a pinata. Maybe you don't Sep 20, 2010 1:53pm EDT
WASHINGTON| Mon Sep 20, the measures he had undertaken Republicans and urged him to feel like you're whacking us with @gurari. “Obamas opposition?
2010 2:38pm EDT since taking office in January fight back. a stick, but we certainly feel like Last time we checked the
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - 2009 were slowly pulling the "I need you to help us understand we've been whacked with a stick." Presidency, Congress and Senate
President Barack Obama on country back to health. how you can regain the political (Additional reporting by Patricia were under ONE control. The
Monday said times were still "My goal here is not to try to center, because you're losing the Zengerle, Jeff Mason and Ross “opposition” blame game is a
tough for many Americans, as he convince you that everything's war of sound bites. You're losing Colvin; Editing by Jerry Norton) phony attempt to cover up
defended his policies during where it needs to be -- it's not. the media cycles," said a small Sep 20, 2010 1:17pm EDT political gross incompetence.
aggressive questioning after the That's why I ran for president. But business owner from LOL. What a joke? If he is Sep 20, 2010 1:54pm EDT
worst U.S. recession since the what I am saying is ... that we're Pennsylvania. sincere about helping business, he You made a very balanced
1930s was declared over. moving in the right direction," he Obama has sought to boost would have done something direct comment gurari.
As audience members at a said. growth through an $814 billion the first day in office. Sep 20, 2010 2:07pm EDT
townhall-style meeting voiced The National Bureau of emergency spending bill in Why he waits until the last few America is in for tougher times
exasperation and disappointment Economic Research, the official February 2009. But additional weeks before mid-term election? regardless of what the politicians
at his administration, and one arbiter of the U.S. business cycle, steps to use fiscal policy to lift Suspicious… in DC do. Globalization is here,
woman said she was "exhausted" said on Monday the longest hiring have been blocked by Sep 20, 2010 1:31pm EDT and standards of living will
from defending him, Obama d o w n t u r n s i n c e t h e G r e a t Republican lawmakers worried The spin doctors are here, as the approach equilibrium for better or
stressed he understood that people Depression ended in June 2009. about the record U.S. budget elections come near. worse.
were frustrated. But the pace of recovery since deficit, predicted to hit $1.47 Sep 20, 2010 1:36pm EDT We help Americans find jobs and
"Even though economists may say then has remained largely below trillion this year. Times are still tough for “some prosperity in Asia. Visit http://
the recession officially ended last the level needed to quickly The White House proposes Americans”. “Some”??? Is this www.pathtoasia.com for details.
year, obviously for the millions of replace the millions of jobs lost in spending a further $180 billion guy delusional? PLEASE name Sep 20, 2010 2:21pm EDT
people who are still out of work ... t h e r e c e s s i o n , a n d r e c e n t over the next 10 years to renew “some Americans” for which it is Ok, my home mortgage is on my
it is still very real for them," economic indicators signal growth U.S. infrastructure, boost research NOT tough……. that is, home which is worth half of what
Obama told the meeting, hosted has softened again in the past and encourage corporate excepting the employees of I paid for it. I’m trying but I don’t
by CNBC television. couple of months. investment. big(ger) government. know how much longer I can
O b a m a ' s D e m o c r a t s r i s k DEEP HOLE Obama also wants to help Sep 20, 2010 1:39pm EDT make payments. My health
p u n i s h m e n t i n N o v e m b e r "Something that took 10 years to consumer spending by making Together “we can”?? What a con insurance premiums are going up
congressional elections from create is going to take a little Bush-era tax cuts for families job. Will someone please take the 19% because of Obama health
v o t e r s w o r r i e d b y U . S . more time to solve," Obama said. making less than $250,000 a year government checkbook away care. My income remains the
unemployment, stuck near 10 Republicans are expected to permanent, while allowing them from this guy because there is no same and people say I’m lucky to
percent, and by the still-fragile p r o f i t f r o m t h e u n c e r t a i n to rise on richer Americans. money in the account. have that. So our President, takes
state of the economy. economic outlook in the Republicans want the tax cuts Sep 20, 2010 1:42pm EDT a lot of vacations, plays a lot of
His first questioner wasted no November 2 midterm election, extended for everyone. Y’all should realize that every golf (which I quit because of the
time in laying out her gripes with with polls suggesting they may Some parts of the business move Obama has put forth has
the Obama administration. well capture the U.S. House of community complain Obama is been contested and blocked at OBAMA page 14
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Recession ended in June 2009: NBER

(Reuters: Top News) dating committee, a private sector Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at Sep 20, 2010 11:31am EDT Sep 20, 2010 11:36am EDT
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:14:12 PM group composed of academic UniCredit Research in New York. Typical. This only shows how How did I know that all the
economists, is notorious for "The NBER does not seem to be incompetent and ineffective our comments here would be
A foreclosed home in California taking its time in declaring the too enthusiastic about the government is. They rely on the complaining that the recession
in a file photo. start and end of recessions. economic outlook either." stupidity of the American people hasn’t ended yet? Just as an FYI,
Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith The committee said it waited to (For NBER's statement, see: here) to belive the outrageous claim that recession doesn’t just mean
WASHINGTON| Mon Sep 20, make its decision this time (Reporting by Emily Kaiser; the recession ended in June of last “tough times”, and the recession
2010 1:14pm EDT because it wanted to review Editing by Andrea Ricci) year. We will see a “double dip” being declared over is not a
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The revised data on national income, Sep 20, 2010 11:00am EDT in the next year. Hang on people! statement of anyone believing we
recession ended in June 2009, released August 27, to get a Lacks credibility – where is the Sep 20, 2010 11:32am EDT have returned to “normalcy”. By
making it the longest downturn clearer reading on the path of data showing return to normalcy? Just finding what appears to be the dictionary definition of a
since the Great Depression of the economic output in 2009. Sep 20, 2010 11:07am EDT the bottom of a trough does not recession, it ended. Here’s some
1930s, the National Bureau of After a meeting in April, some of “Heads”, the depression is over. mark the end of a recession; it reading materials on the matter:
Economic Research said on the panel's members said they Evidently these people come to marks a low point in a recession. http://economics.about.com/cs/
Monday. were concerned the economy their conclusions with a coin toss. However, if our economy can’t businesscycles/a/depressions.htm
The NBER, considered the could dip back into negative Do they draw a salary for this generate enough momentum to *We welcome comments that
arbiter of U.S. recessions, said its t e r r i t o r y . I n M o n d a y ' s kind of nonsense? gain some sustained y altitude advance the story directly or with
declaration did not mean the announcement, the NBER said Sep 20, 2010 11:20am EDT from that low point, then it might relevant tangential information.
e c o n o m y h a d " r e t u r n e d t o any fresh downturn would mark a Like most Government and quasi not be “the” trough. We try to block comments that
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sometimes remains below normal 2007. consider all kinds of data relating more likely it is that June 2009 frequently to ensure they meet our
well into expansion. "The basis for this decision was to essentially non-American was just one trough, with more standards. If you see a comment
President Barack Obama, under the length and strength of the people and entities as economic disappointments to that you believe is irrelevant or
pressure to speed up the pace of recovery to date," the NBER said. “American”. Because they say so. come. inappropriate, you can flag it to
recovery and drive down U.S. officials have been America is a place of people, not It might be only “a” trough, our editors by using the report
unemployment as November struggling to find a way to speed companies. The only American Sep 20, 2010 11:32am EDT abuse links. Views expressed in
congressional elections near, said up a sluggish recovery that has companies employ most of their Based on paragraph two, can we the comments do not represent
the official end of the recession left unemployment at a painfully people here in America, not expect that around August 2011 those of Reuters.
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Hurricane Igor heads north after battering Bermuda
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:41:09 AM
A car makes it way through
driving wind and heavy rains in
Southampton, Bermuda, as
Hurricane Igor strikes the island,
September 18, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Kat Jackson
By Sam Strangeways and Ruth
O'Kelly Lynch
HAMILTON| Mon Sep 20, 2010
11:41am EDT
HAMILTON(Reuters) -
Hurricane Igor churned north on
Monday on a track expected to
take it near Newfoundland in
easternmost Canada, after
battering Bermuda with heavy
winds, waves and rain that caused
damage but no casualties.
The Canadian Hurricane Center
issued a tropical storm watch for
the coast of Newfoundland. North
Atlantic Refining, operator of a
115,000 barrel-per-day oil
refinery in Come-by-Chance,
Newfoundland, said it was
keeping a close eye on Igor.
The U.S. National Hurricane
Center said the core of the large
Category 1 hurricane, packing
maximum sustained winds near
75 miles per hour, was about 275
miles north-northeast of Bermuda,
a popular resort and global
insurance service hub, at 11 a.m.
EDT (1500 GMT).
Adaptive Traffic Lights Could Achieve 'The Green Wave'
Rachel Ehrenberg (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:00:00 AM
Overnight, Bermuda experienced
several hours of lashing wind,
waves and rain. Residents of the
British island territory reported
uprooted trees, flying debris,
widespread power outages, some
flooding of streets and homes and
boats torn from moorings.
Bermuda has a population of
more than 67,000 people.
Hurricane force winds extended
about 90 miles from the core of
Igor. The U.S. East Coast would
experience rough surf and a stiff
breeze, the Miami-based
hurricane center said.
The hurricane was moving north-
northeast at 24 miles per hour. A
turn northeast away from the U.S.
coast and an increase in forward
speed were forecast in the next 24
hours.
"Igor will continue to be a large
cyclone as it moves past
Newfoundland toward
Greenland," the hurricane center
said.
"PRETTY WILD NIGHT"
Official damage assessments
were being carried out in
Bermuda as Igor pulled away on
Monday morning. Emergency
crews were clearing felled trees
and debris from roads.
Local police spokesman Dwayne
Caines said there had been
property damage across the
island, but there were no reports
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Smith said there were "many
reports of broken poles, wires
down and transformers down,
affecting both high voltage and
low voltage lines."
"We haven't been outside,"
Michelle Simmons, a school
principal in St. George's, told
Reuters.
"It was a pretty wild night," she
said.
But Bermuda appeared to have
suffered less from the impact of
Igor than it did from Hurricane
Fabian in 2003, which killed four
people and caused millions of
dollars of damage.
East of Igor, Tropical Storm Julia
was breaking up on Monday and
posed no threat to land.
The hurricane center said there
was a high chance of a new storm
developing west of the Cape
Verde Islands in the eastern
Atlantic, as the 2010 Atlantic
hurricane season continued this
year's active pace.
In Mexico over the weekend, the
remnants of Hurricane Karl
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Campeche, where Mexico
produces more than two-thirds of
its 2.55 million barrels per day of
crude output.
(Additional reporting by
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How We Doing on that Whole Sustainability Problem? Not too

Well
Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch) it surpasses the United States in emissions by 2.2 gigatons per vehicles. In India the urbanization
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:56:26 AM energy consumed, much of it year. The world’s best energy is messier, with millions moving
coming from extremely dirty coal. companies are likely going to turn to the cities in hopes of a better
The best entrepreneurs build But there are more pressing into software companies. This is life and falling off the grid, living
t h i n g s o u t o f t h e i r o w n problems of sustainability in the an opportunity made for systems in slums, toiling in the informal
experience. Maybe that’s why emerging world, that in America and software geniuses of Silicon economy with no way out.
Silicon Valley hasn’t dominated we just don’t see. Valley, particularly the enterprise Problems of sanitation, air quality,
clean tech the way it dominated The vividness of the problem is software and supply chain crew water quality and energy all get
IT and the Web. We’re aware of something I’ve seen up-close markets that have mostly been in compounded as the problem
the energy crisis, but it doesn’t during some-forty weeks of a slump for the last ten years. This grows.
really affect us enough to do reporting in emerging markets. In is actually good news, because it’s
much about it. Look at how China bloody fights are breaking a solvable problem through
companies run things in their own out for water. In India, cities and software and logistics. That we • A huge question is whether
houses: A study showed that roadways are crumbling under a can build. New sources of water access and affordability can go
while nearly 80% of executives crush of people moving to cities and fossil fuels? Not so much. hand in hand when it comes to
believe that sustainability is a that the infrastructure and social energy, water and food. We can
business benefit in the long term, services cannot support. And in get more dire as the world engineer solutions, but can the
only 30% require their businesses Africa, fertile countries still population expands to 9 billion by • So much for that American people who need them most
run in a sustainable way. struggle to feed their populations. 2050. At the World Economic ideal of “urban flight.” Half of the afford them? Several experiments
Are we waiting on magic fairies T h e s e a r e p r o b l e m s m o s t Forum meeting, the global water world’s population lives in cities around the emerging world have
to take care of this? Or maybe just Americans know are out there, but crisis was talked about almost right now, but in the next forty proven you don’t necessarily need
entrepreneurs in the emerging we don’t think about them, more than the energy crisis. years that will increase to 70%. huge budgets to solve these
world who see and struggle with because we’re not faced with “Water is the new oil,” said one For China and India that means problems just willingness to
the problem everyday. Usually them. Would someone who’s CEO. Much of the story is about more than 800 million people will experiment and innovate.
b e i n g c l o s e t o a g l o b a l l y never used the Internet be able to the waste of water. A sad fact I be moving to cities by 2050. I Sometimes working within
threatening problem is bad, but build a competitive new browser? learned: The US is indirectly the heard few answers on the plight of constraints forces the most elegant
sometimes it can be an advantage. Probably not. That’s why my number one exporter of water emerging market urbanization, solutions to a problem. One
To wit, more than 40% of money (figuratively, because as a because we use it so heavily and and I still think this is one of the panelist at Davos spoke of a
investments in renewable energy reporter I have no money) is on wastefully in our food production. biggest problems the world faces. program in the Middle East where
took place in emerging markets in the emerging world to solve these The panel on sustainable cities the Dead Sea was desalinized,
2009– most likely because those b i g — a n d p o t e n t i a l l y was one of the more using that salt to salinize the Red
are the countries that can’t l u c r a t i v e — p r o b l e m s . • We’re not talking about disappointing. Public Sea and generating energy during
continue to put the problems off. Some stats and commentary I shortages; we’re talking about transportation seems the best the process that could be used
The theme of this past week’s heard at the Forum last week that management systems. There’s answer to de-clogging roadways, elsewhere. In Rwanda, private
W o r l d E c o n o m i c F o r u m have me thinking about this long more than enough water on the but that doesn’t solve the companies are extracting
“Summer Davos” conference was after I left China and my jetlag planet, the sun provides two times aspirational needs of people who dangerous methane from the
sustainability. Like a lot of has subsided: our energy needs if sourced and want cars, nor does it answer how bottom of an “exploding lake”
Americans, when I hear the word • Just how bad the water situation stored properly (a massive if) and poor countries get the funding to turning a potential natural disaster
“sustainability” I think climate is. Lack of access to clean, safe there’s plenty of food to go build these systems. Already in into something that can
c h a n g e a n d a l t e r n a t i v e drinking water plagues nearly 2.5 around. It’s all about how we China there are traffic jams that potentially power the tiny country
energy—not a bad topic for a billion of the 6.9 billion people on route it. Smart grids could reduce last days, and a small percentage HOW page 17
conference held in China, just as earth, and the situation will only of migrating urbanites have
16 Technology/
The iPad Newsstand Could Work, But Will Publishers Cede
Subscriber Control To Apple?
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:39:51 PM
This past May, a month after the
iPad’s launch, I wrote about my
changing media consumption
habits due to the device.
Surprisingly, I had started reading
print media again after several
years away. Well, reading it in
digital format on the iPad. That
said, I noted that there were still
some big problems with the
pricing that would likely stop
most consumers from doing the
same. Apple now appears to be on
the verge of fixing that — maybe.
A few reports over the past
several days have noted that
Apple is in talks with magazine
and newspaper companies about
creating a new store — a digital
newsstand, as it were — similar to
the store Apple created to sell
books on their devices. Through
this store, Apple would sell print
publications by way of
subscription (and, presumably,
stand-along issues also). The
latest report today in the Wall
Street Journal suggests such a
store could launch as soon as
October or November — or
possibly early next year alongside
a new version of the iPad itself.
From these initial reports, it
sounds as if this store could be
just the thing Apple and these
print publications need. Currently,
the magazine/newspaper situation
on the iPad is a mess because
each of them is an individual app.
E-reader News Edition
It was actually worse at launch newspaper apps — perhaps these
because each individual issue of guys are worried that if this model
each individual publication was a becomes a huge hit, they’ll be
separate app — most have since giving away a lot of money to
switched to one app for their Apple. Though, I think that would
brand with in-app purchases being be a pretty nice problem for them
used to buy new issues in that to have given the current state of
app. The launch of iOS 4.2 in their industries.
November will also clean things If that’s a huge concern, WSJ
up a bit since you will be able to also says that Apple is open to
stick all your magazines/ letting publishers circumvent their
newspapers in a folder to better own subscription layer by offering
organize them. one themselves inside their own
But a centralized repository of apps. This is what WSJ, Financial
this content is a much better idea. Times, and Zinio currently does.
Others, like Zinio, have done this, But it’s too cumbersome of a
but obviously an Apple offering process. The whole point of the
could be more streamlined with Apple newsstand would be to
the device. One big reason is that streamline the ecosystem. For it to
Apple’s digital newsstand would work best, all publishers would be
apps for not being cheaper. they apparently wouldn’t be
use the iTunes payment system in on board offering all their content
Considering there is no need to willing to give it up, according to
place on every iPad out there. in one easy-to-consume way. You
print anything out, nor is there a the WSJ report. This could be a
Magazines and newspapers would know, like iTunes.
need to pay for postage, it makes big problem for publishers — and
be one-click to buy and you Two other issues these
sense that they should be cheaper. it may be why only one is said to
wouldn’t have to worry about publications have to address: 1) A
But if the Apple newsstand be for sure on board with this idea
entering your credit card more timely delivery of content.
subscriptions could come in right now.
information again. Further, with 2) File sizes of the content. The
around the same price that people That said, WSJ also notes that
subscriptions, you could get new first issue has been annoying.
pay for print subscriptions (about Apple may be open to different
issues automatically pushed to People who want say, the latest
a dollar an issue), the pricing ways of letting publishers get that
your device the day they come issue of Wired on the iPad, often
would likely be seen as less of a user information. The example
out. have to wait a few weeks until
problem. given is that a newspaper could
Subscriptions account for after it hits newsstands (and well
But at the same time, the give away a free Sunday edition
something like 70 percent of the after most of the content is
publishers themselves may have a to those who fill in their
consumption of print media, so already online, for free). Another
problem because the reason they information for that company to
it’s clear that this model is needed big benefit of traditional
love the subscription model is all use.
for the iPad as well. Currently, subscriptions is that you often get
the data they get from it. Name, Another potential hold-up is
most magazine issues cost the issue before it hits newsstands.
address, credit cards — all of this Apple’s current model of taking
between $4 and $5 on the device If Apple can convince publishers
is used to entice advertisers to 30 percent off the top of all
— comprable to the actual print to this content first for their new
sign up. Under Apple’s new content sold through its stores. Of
versions — but if you look at the store, that could be big. Further, a
system, Apple would be the ones course, Apple already does this
reviews of these apps in the App IPAD page 22
getting that customer data — and with the stand-alone magazine/
Store, nearly all of them trash the
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 17
HOW
continued from page 15

for forty years. In India, I visited a Europe and North America just one solar panel. Sometimes
tiny village called Hiware Bazar combined. There’s some debate it’s about under-engineering to
that has turned itself from a about whether that’s the right solve these root problems, not
drought ridden wasteland to a solution, given that those cars are over-engineering.
lush, clean oasis in the middle of powered by the same dirty coal
nowhere that sells its produce at a
brand-premium and boasts more
plants. Energy experts at the
forum said those arguments were
When you are talking about
remaking the way we get the basic
VLC Media Player Available
than fifty rupee millionaires.
There was no one secret for
a straw-man, and if cars can
charge during off-peak night time
building blocks of life– and learn
to share them with the 9 billion in App Store, Supports
Hiware Bazar’s success, rather hours billions of cars can recharge people that will be on the planet
decades of experimenting with
various techniques to make the
without the need to build a single
new plant.
by 2050–it’s clearly not an issue
for just government or just large
Nearly All Codecs There Are
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) utilizing the application, it should
most of the rain they got, save it incumbent companies or just
and allocate it more wisely. entrepreneurs, any more than it is Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:22:19 PM play just fine. While there were
• Aside from building new a n i s s u e f o r j u s t W e s t e r n other applications in the past, like
Everyone knows about Apple’s YXPlayer and OPlayer (and
m a n a g e m e n t a n d s o f t w a r e developed countries, or just
torrid history about apps in their CineXPlayer), both the refinement
• With a problem that has dire systems for water, food and smoggy emerging markets. To
App Store. From rejections, to and overall ease-of-use with VLC
consequences for private sector energy, there’s a lot of room for have any optimism that all these
removals, they’ve covered the Media Player makes it stand out
economies, national governments company building and innovation groups can work in concert to
gamut of making sure the App as the premiere choice for video
and local governments, it seems a on the product end. Designing solve these big of problems you
Store held nothing in it that Apple playback.
lot of the stalling on the solutions products that use sustainability as have to either be a big believer in
would find questionable, for any As far as pricing and releases go,
are centered around deciding a feature, not a problem to be the goodness of humanity or a big
reason. But, the Cupertino-based the official release date isn’t until
whose job is what. Along these solved. The example that jumps to believer in the power of long-term
company has turned over a new tomorrow, but if you head into the
lines, there’s a lot of debate about mind is VNL, the solar-powered business greed to motivate short-
leaf recently, first with getting a A p p S t o r e r i g h t n o w , y o u
the role of government subsidies. base station company I wrote term actions. I respect the World
bit more transparent in their shouldn’t have any trouble finding
Most governments and private about during my last trip to India. Economic Forum for pulling
application submission rules and it. Pricing is free, thankfully, so
sector leaders at the Forum felt By making the base stations cheap together so many powerful people
regulations, and then letting in there shouldn’t be anyone out
they were essential, but one man enough that mobile operators t o s p e n d a w e e k i n C h i n a
Google Voice clients. And now, there who does’t take advantage
phrased it best when he said the could still make money of people discussing the nuances of these
VLC Media Player is officially of this app.
trick was making sure subsidies who can’t pay $6 a month for issues, but I can’t say I left hugely
available in the Apple App Store [ via Zath]
were a “feeding bottle” not an service, the company solved a lot optimistic on either count. Like an
as an iPad application. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
“addiction.” of the other problems base alcoholic, I fear the world hasn’t
Supported media formats on the • WD TV Media Player does
stations have. For instance, there’s hit rock-bottom on its wasteful
iPad, the tablet device from 1080P and plays MKV
no maintenance cost, because it’s resources addiction yet.
Apple, aren’t as full as some • Toshiba StorE TV+ Features
• Electric car production is simple enough that it can be
would like them to be. But, thanks 2TB HDD and Integrated WiFi
forecast to reach one million installed by illiterate villagers.
to the VLC media player, owners • Tiny CTM1000 CiragoTV Mini
vehicles in the next four years and And the simplicity also means it
basically don’t have to worry USB Media Player has HDMI
Asia is on pace to do more than needs less power, so it can run on
about that. As the company • MvixUSA DS-100 is HD media
proudly states, the player supports hub for Digital Signage
“nearly all codec there is.” That • Eminent EM7075-DTS network
means, if you have an iPad, you mediaplayer launches
should be able to throw any kind
of movie file you have onto it, and
18 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Native Applications Now Account for 50% of Mobile Data

Volume
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) Hannu Verkasaio says that while
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:49:09 PM mobile Browsing through the
Web Browser accounted for
For most, having a smartphone nearly 80% of mobile data
means that you get to enjoy pretty volume only a few years ago,
much everything you want, right applications are changing results
from the gadget in your hand. drastically. However, the Browser
Surfing the Internet, playing is still sticking around, keeping
games, watching media, and strong in its usage efforts.
listening to music are all things Verkasaio says that the usage of
you can do from your smartphone. applications is increasing so
One of the most popular things to quickly, because the applications
do is browse the Web, in one way generally provide a better user
or another, and while the Browser experience, which many people
pre-installed on your device may would probably agree with.
be good enough and still one of [ via ReadWriteWeb]
the best ways to do that, it looks Relevant Entries on SlashGear
like applications are starting to • New antivirus solutions for
steal some of the show, as a new mobiles!!
report from a analytics company • Mobile Data – is price the be-all
Zokem states that native apps now and end-all?
account for 50 percent of the total surveyed, and it does indeed show with the Browser, while it fact regarding mobile usage of • Epson and Thinxtream team up
mobile data volume. the way that applications, both accounts for 50% of the total data Facebook and Twitter, two social for printing from iPad, iPhone,
The report comes from the native and third-party, have volume. On the other hand, networking giants. Facebook is and iPod touch
Finnish-based mobile analytics grown over the years. applications account for 46% of engaged by 12% of smartphone • Microsoft release Windows
company, Zokem, and this is the The report states that while the data application time, while they owners, but it ranks up 188 M a r k e t p l a c e f o r M o b i l e
result of no small feat. The study mobile Browser, like the iPhone’s bear 50% of the total data volume minutes of total usage time. “prohibited app types” list
took place from 2009 to 2010, and Safari Browser, and the pre- as well. Versus Twitter, which only 4% of • iPhone plans now cheaper sans
analyzed over 10,000 smartphone installed Browser on Android- On average, the report also states smartphone owners fire up, and data plan option
users, and somewhere in the based devices, is still the most that people tend to open their Web yet it amasses a whopping 311
b a l l p a r k o f 6 . 5 m i l l i o n popular consumer of mobile data, Browser at least once a month, minutes of total usage time. These
smartphone application usage applications are quickly catching and yet amass about 300 minutes numbers are ranked on a per
sessions in 16 countries. So, this up. According to the report, per month collecting data. The month basis, too.
isn’t just the result of 16 people people spend 54% of the time report also shows an interesting In the end, Zokem’s founder Dr.

Gisele Shows Off Her Model Mom Skills in Central Park With Baby Ben!
PopSugar (PopSugar) Saturday she brought her son stuck around the Big Apple for see Ben and Gisele's adorable
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:30:00 PM Benjamin to Central Park for a Tom Brady and the Patriots game playdate! View Slideshow ›
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Analysts predict all-in-one Apple TV Firefox Home Goes

in 2012 Worldwide, Adds URL
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:10:19 PM
DVR, and guidance features to its
Apple TV product."
However, the recently revealed
will sell 1.5 million units during
its first year of availability, they
said in the note.
Search & More
Mike Melanson
Apple inked a deal with Rovi Apple TV does not boast any Using those sales to justify its (ReadWriteWeb)
today that could potentially see onboard storage. Some sort of future plans, Apple will finally
the firm's TV listings guide make local storage would be required to release an all-in-one television Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:14:08 PM

its way to future Apple products. add DVR functionality to the during the 2012 calendar year, the
Rovi, which was formerly known device. Andrew Murphy, one of Firefox Home, the mobile app
analysts said. They believe that
a s M a c r o v i s i o n b e f o r e t h e the analysts who worked on the that brings your bookmarks, open
the company is waiting on
company officially changed its note, said in a phone conversation tabs and browsing history to your
consumers to "gain comfort with
name in 2009, provides TV guide that the functionality could iPhone, has gone worldwide,
connected TVs and apps on their
listings to hardware vendors. The potentially be added to "a future multilingual and more with its
TVs." At that time, it will deliver
company's technology allows Apple TV product." latest release.
its "all-in-one philosophy to the
users to sift through For those of you hoping for a
But the new Apple TV is a digital living room like it has with
programming, find shows, and stepping stone for something mobile version of Firefox on the
the iMac and the iTunes
record programs to a DVR. iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, we
much greater, Munster and his ecosystem." to connect with their own custom
Exact details of Rovi's deal with cohorts contend. They said a more say don't hold your breath, but
But before all that can happen, Firefox Sync servers. We're
Apple are unknown, but analysts capable Apple TV "is another step this app will help you bring much
Apple needs to get its set-top box guessing that this feature is best
at Piper Jaffray believe the in the direction of an all-in-one of what you do on your home
onto store shelves. The Apple TV for those of you who don't trust
licensed services will be making Apple television." In fact, over the computer on the go.
is scheduled to launch later this the cloud for storage of your
their way to the Apple TV and next couple years, the analysts Sponsor
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eventually, an all-in-one Apple believe the company's new Apple The app gives users access to all
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on someone else's site, please read different things, we strongly
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investors that the deal makes units since its launch in 2007. you start the app.
The latest version of the app quite well. If you're a diehard
Apple "clear to add live TV, Going forward, the new Apple TV Firefox user with an iPhone,
brings "worldwide" support with
however, Firefox Home surely
Video Shows Football Stadium Switcheroo at Warp Speed 15 languages, the ability to search
for URLs that you can't find in seems like a can't-miss.
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The Best Social Network You've Apple Approves VLC

Never Heard of Gets Bought Out App: Play Any Video on
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
various people whose content
items to friends, family, friends of
friends, etc.
Facebook does offer this type of
Your iPad
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:10:50 PM
comes through your feed of Frederic Lardinois
feature, but buries it deep under (ReadWriteWeb)
Multiply.com, a well-designed subscribed status updates, shared default settings instead of
social network that emphasizes media, etc. and then allows you to encouraging its use. Instead Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:16:31 PM

different levels of privacy and has turn a dial to view items shared by Facebook has pushed users into
a super-loyal fan base, has sold a people more or less close to you. Apple is clearly relaxing the rules
sharing as much as possible with
controlling interest in its company It's an idea that proceeded but for inclusion in its iTunes App
as many people as possible.
to South African media company s o u n d s a w h o l e l o t l i k e Store. The latest example of this
Supporting the contextual
Naspers. Facebook's Newsfeed vs Live is the fact that an iPad version of
integrity of social networking
Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent Feed feature, which was launched VLC, the popular open-source
communication is now one of the
reported on the deal this morning, in October of 2009. Borrowed video player, just arrived in the
primary ways that challengers of
but the big picture take-away is From by Facebook, Passed Up By store. With the free VLC app,
Facebook aim to differentiate
this: there are large audiences to Twitter iPad owners can now easily watch
themselves.
serve with social media outside As early as 2008, Multiply videos in a plethora of formats -limits for developers. Just in the
Might Naspers take Multiply
the US (Multiply is particularly accused Facebook of repeated that Apple's own built-in video last few days, we saw the return
world-wide with a new infusion
popular in South East Asia), there copy-cat moves to rip-off its player does not support. The team of numerous Google Voice apps
of support? It may, or it may not.
are potential acquirers outside of original designs and feature also plans to release an iPhone that were previously banned from
We've reported here on a number
the US (Naspers has also invested innovations. The accusations version of the app in the near inclusion in the app store, as well
of Nasper's investments in years
in Digital Sky Technology, the seemed to have some merit, and future. as the return of a popular C64
past, from Russian email giant
Russian firm who put huge sums Multiply noted some irony in the Sponsor emulator with support for the
Mail.ru to the fantastic African
into backing Facebook) and fact that Facebook had recently In our own brief tests, VLC BASIC programming language.
social media aggregator Afrigator.
finally - there's a market for clear, sued a German copy-cat site for performed very well and played Overall, this can only be a good
It's not clear that those deals took
useful privacy controls in social borrowing too liberally from its all the AVI and DIVX files we thing for the iOS ecosystem. Now
the companies that received
networking. design. threw at it. You can download the that Apple has clarified its App
Naspers money to any higher
Sponsor One innovative feature that app here. Store policies, we will hopefully
level of impact on the web.
We first looked at Multiply four Multiply came up with that would To transfer videos to the iPad, see more of these apps return to
It's a big world out there, though,
years ago next month and said it be nice to see Facebook borrow users have to go through iTunes the App Store. At the same time,
and Multiply will now get a
offered "a fundamentally different more from was the variable and use Apple's built-in syncing developers now also have a far
chance to expand further with the
way of consuming personalized privacy settings available when mechanism. Sadly, you can't just better idea of which apps are
support of a major media backer.
information." Specifically, the publishing an update or sharing sync the iPad app directly with permissible under Apple's rules,
Discuss
service automatically analyzed media. Multiply makes it super your VLC library and playlists on which will hopefully mean that
how close you are socially to the easy to limit visibility of shared the desktop. Apple is Moving to a we'll see quite a few cutting-edge
More Liberal App Store Policy apps in the near future that
The Perfect Meal for Women It seems like Apple is currently
opening up its store to a number
developers held back until now.
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Stevemail smackdown on student
strikes sparks
Michael Rose (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:30:00 PM
On Friday, Gawker ran the story
of Chelsea K. Isaacs and her
claimed email back-and-forth
with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Now
it's all the buzz.
Isaacs, a self-described"renowned
college journalist, artist and social
fixture" (also apparently North
America's "most desirable hand
model" at the age of 12, which is,
if accurate, rather creepy), didn't
get the replies she sought when
she reached out to Apple's media
relations team over and over for
answers relating to a class
assignment. Since her three iPad-
related questions were apparently
the key to her getting an A on her
classwork, and she felt that she'd
been ill-treated by the silence, she
took her case to El Steve.
The exchange was spicy enough
to get covered all over the place,
from New York Magazine to the
UK's Guardian newspaper.
Apparently, when a CEO bothers
to answer his email at all, she
thought he'd be friendly and
helpful -- not say things like "Our
goals do not include helping you
get a good grade" and "Please
leave us alone." Curt and more
than a little rude? Sure, but a)
that's our Steve, and b) she kind of
had it coming.
I'm not sure how much Ms.
Isaacs knows about Apple, but if
she was expecting a prompt and
thorough response to any question
that began "I'm working on a
college assignment" from the PR
folk, she's not living on the same
planet as any journalist or blogger
who covers the company. From
the bottom to the top, Apple
employees hold their cards close
to the chest, and often as not a
request for comment goes
unanswered -- even from major
media outlets, to say nothing of
college seniors.
Calling repeatedly and
desperately with the three mystery
iPad questions, rather than rolling
with a placid "Apple's
representatives were not available
for comment" or seeking out other
sources of info, doesn't speak for
her journalistic acumen. Emailing
the CEO to complain that nobody
would help her with her
schoolwork? Well, that's just
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Craft Retail Chain Michaels
Buys Digital Scrapbooking
Startup ScrapHD
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:50:19 AM
Digital scrapbooking is a big
business. Companies from Apple
to Shutterfly have been offering
Michaels store.
consumers a way to create pretty
Michaels says the scrapbook
digital photobooks and
business is a $2 billion market,
scrapbooks from various pictures
with the U.S. digital photo book
and other digital memories (and
market growing by nearly 60
making a good amount of money
percent over the past five years.
in the process). Today, a well-
The ScrapHD website will be
known brick and mortar craft
closed during the transition, and
store, Michaels, is buying
will re-launch on Michaels.com
sophomoric. One thing's for C h i c a g o - b a s e d d i g i t a l
with free content and paid
certain, though, she's got her good scrapbooking startup ScrapHD.
memberships for access to
grade in Brand Promotion 101 -- Terms of the deal were not
premium content.
although who knows how well it disclosed.
The fact that brick and mortar
will serve her out in the job ScrapHD allows consumers to
stores are trying to get into digital
market. create digital scrapbooks online
scrapbooking through acquisitions
Of course, from a media relations that can be printed wither at home
could be good news for smaller
perspective, far better if Steve had or have bound into a professional,
online scrapbooking sites, like
skipped replying at all, or come coffee-book style book. The site
Scrapblog, as the digital
back with a simple "Sorry, can't also offered the ability to create
scrapbooking space is quite
help" rather than getting in that greetings cards and posters from
competitive with Flickr, Apple,
satisfying but unnecessary dig photos. Now users will be able to
Shutterfly all offering similar
about her grades. Then again, use the service to print. Now users
technologies to put user photos on
she's fortunate he didn't get really will soon be able to send their
digital books.
ticked off and go all ninja on her. prints for pickup at their nearest
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Intuit’s Scott Cook And GE’s Beth
Comstock To Explore Cultures Of
Innovation At Disrupt SF
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:23:48 PM
Disruption happens. If you are a
startup, you try to be the
disruptor. But what if you are an
established company with billions
of dollars in revenue? Then you
try to create a culture of
innovation that rides the wave of
change before it leaves your
company behind. The trick is to
know when to catch that wave.
Next week at TechCrunch
Disrupt, Intuit founder Scott Cook
and GE’s senior vice president
and chief marketing officer Beth
Comstock will sit down to share
with the audience how they keep
innovation humming at scale.
They will be joining other
speakers including John Doerr,
Michael Moritz, Barry Diller,
Zynga’s Mark Pincus, HP’s Todd
Bradley, Google’s Marissa
Mayer, Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi,
and Twitter’s Jason Goldman.
(See agenda here, buy tickets
here).
Cook, of course, started out as a
disruptor himself in the 1980s
when he brought accounting
software to PCs. Intuit’s products
(Quicken, Quickbooks,
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big part of enjoying a newspaper elevated digital subscription
for a lot of people is getting it
very early in the morning. On the
agreement and sending them an
iPad with the subscription pre-
iPad, for newspapers to work, it loaded on the device as a “free
should be no different.
The second issue varies
gift”. Perhaps that would be too
expensive for relatively cheap
In addition to running all of GE’s depending on the publication. magazine subscriptions, but long-
marketing, Comstock is also Again, to single out Wired, their term newspaper subscriptions
responsible for growth initiatives. issues are often 500 megabytes could pay for that. Remember,
S h e i s s p e a r h e a d i n g i t s are larger (each issue!). They need most of the money is still in
Ecomagination a n d to get these way down in size if advertising, and it’s all about
Healthymagination programs. they want people subscribing to keeping those customers they’re
These go way beyond traditional them. On the low-end iPad, for currently bleeding — and, gasp,
marketing efforts. As part of its example, you could only carry maybe even attracting new ones.
Ecomagination Challenge, GE is about 32 (or less) issues before [images: Disney and Paramount]
i n v e s t i n g $ 2 0 0 m i l l i o n i n you were completely out of room CrunchBase Information Apple
g r e e n t e c h s t a r t u p s a n d on the device. Naturally, you can iPad Information provided by
technologies to come up with the delete these issues after you read CrunchBase
next disruptive wave of energy them, but you shouldn’t have to
products. do that if you don’t want to.
At Disrupt, we like to put Or how about this idea:
interesting people together and magazines/newspapers getting
see what conversations follow. users to sign up for a multi-year
Cook and Comstock both have a
fine appreciation for the power of
TurboTax) are the gold standard new ideas to drive growth. But
i n f i n a n c i a l s o f t w a r e f o r what is the best way to capture
What Browser Do You
individuals and small businesses. t h o s e n e w i d e a s : t h r o u g h
As software transitions to the acquisitions, partnerships, organic Use? [Browser Wars]
Web, Intuit is coming right along projects? Join us at Disrupt to Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
with it. (I file all my taxes hear what they have to say on the Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:00:00 AM
through TurboTax online). A subject and how they are trying to
year ago, Intuit acquired Mint, the create cultures of innovation Internet Explorer 9 beta boasts
personal budgeting service which w i t h i n t h e i r c o m p a n i e s . some impressive new features,
launched at TechCrunch 40 in CrunchBase Information Beth Firefox 4 is just around the corner
2007 and won. More recently, it Comstock Scott Cook Information w i t h t h e v e r y c o o l t a b -
partnered with credit card reader provided by CrunchBase Which browser do you prefer?
management feature, Panorama,
Mophie to take on startups like More »
and Chrome continues to impress
Square in the mobile payments with speed, stability, and
business. syncability. We're wondering:
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Exploratory Testing: An Unscripted
Quest For Bugs
Ben Barden (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:30:00 PM
Exploratory testing is a form of
quality checking that does not rely
on test scripts. A tester is let loose
on the system, often with very
little introduction, and they are
encouraged to report any and all
issues they find.
As you're doing exploratory
testing, you attempt to use the
system as a user who doesn't
understand where they need to go
or where they will end up.This
increases the likelihood of
encountering issues that a formal
test script might not bring to light.
What exploratory testing
techniques can you use to uncover
issues?
Sponsor
Trying Every Link
Click every link, visit every
screen, get a feel for what you're
dealing with. Do all the links lead
somewhere? Is a consistent design
used throughout? Do you see any
BlackBerry Storm3 caught on camera?
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:39:00 PM
Theoretically, we think this could
just be a really well-executed
Photoshop mashup, but
considering how good RIM is at
keeping industrial design
elements consistent from device
obvious error messages as you
browse through the system? Log
In, Log Out
A common source of issues can
be due to users viewing a page
while logged out. When you click
the login link, where do you end
up? Does the system take you
back to where you were? Does the
site allow a user to get too far
before asking them to sign in - or
are they locked out too early in
the process?
What differences occur when you
view a page while logged out, and
to device, we tend to believe this
alleged shot of a BlackBerry
Storm3 in the wild. Specs are said
to include a 3.7-inch display -- up
significantly from the Storm2's
3.2-inch example and better suited
to take on 2010's top-tier
touchphones -- along with 8GB of
onboard storage. We'd also heard
if you view the same page when
logged in? How clear is it that
you'll see more information when
you sign in? Form Filling
When you fill out a form and you
need to change the values you
entered, are you shown exactly
what you need to correct?
Navigating the Site
How easy is it to find the link
you need? Can you find your way
back to a page easily if you've
found it once before? Find Issues
Before the Client Does
Exploratory testing allows you to
test a lot of functionality in a
relatively short timeframe. You
probably won't hit all scenarios,
but you'll get a good idea of
whether the system is ready for
more detailed testing. It's also a
good way to find and fix any
serious issues before your client
finds them. This means you're
much more likely to deliver a
polished product.
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Apple has bought out
Polar Rose
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial thereby providing the Faces
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) feature to those without iPhoto.
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:00:00 PM In addition, their very cool
FaceLib technology allows
Apple has spent a little bit of that mobile devices to recognize users'
huge cash surplus to buy Polar faces and pull up their associated
Rose, a Sweden-based technology social networking services, like
company that focuses on face Facebook, Twitter, Fickr and
recognition. In a blog post dated more. We can easily see such a
September 2nd, Thijs Stalenhoef thing working on the iPhone.
notes that their face-tagging Watch a video of FaceLib for
service is closing down, and, Android after the break.
"You may yet see our technology TUAW Apple has bought out
in one of our licensees' products Polar Rose originally appeared on
in the future." The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Polar Rose produced a cool (TUAW) on Mon, 20 Sep 2010
product called FaceCloud, which 14:00:00 EST. Please see our
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guesses that Apple may want to
bring the service to MobileMe,
be slated for BlackBerry 6, a 5 or are you at peace with your
megapixel cam, and a late-2010 decision?
launch on Verizon, and the new BlackBerry Storm3 caught on
rumor of integrated mobile camera? originally appeared on
hotspot functionality would Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010
corroborate that a bit since Big 13:39:00 EDT. Please see our
Red's really pushing that feature terms for use of feeds. Permalink
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Solar Impulse set for next flight
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:38:56 PM
Powered by the sun, the Solar
Impulse takes flight.(Credit: Solar
Impulse/Stephane Gros)
Switzerland's Solar Impulse is
ramping up for its next flight--this
one designed to see how well it
plays with other aircraft.
With weather conditions
expected to be favorable, Solar
Impulse co-founder and pilot
Andre Borschberg will fly the
solar plane from its home base in
Payerne, Switzerland, tomorrow
between 8 and 11 a.m. Central
European Summer Time and land
at Geneva between 12:30 and 1
p.m.
After Borschberg and fellow
Solar Impulse founder Bertrand
Piccard speak with the media and
invited guests for a special
information session, Borschberg
Nokia N8 delayed 'for a few weeks to do some final amends'
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:44:00 PM
Sounds like it's not much of a
delay -- but be that as it may, if
you were hoping to pick up your
colorful N8 in the tail end of this
month... well, we don't quite
know how to say this, but you're
going to want to make other
plans. Backing up rumors that
have been going around the past
couple days, locales that had
expected to get the N8 in
will pilot the plane back home to
Payerne around 3:30 p.m., landing
by 6:30 p.m. Then if the weather
cooperates, the plane will take off
again on Wednesday and head
toward Zurich.
The new flight will test the plane
to see how it handles itself in the
September have now been pushed
back to October while Nokia
makes "some final amends." On
the upside, some rumors had the
delay pegged for November, so
this doesn't seem to be as bad as it
could've been. For what it's worth,
Nokia mentioned during Nokia
World last week (and again today)
that the N8 is seeing strong pre-
order demand -- the strongest ever
for a Nokia device, allegedly -- so be just the impetus they needed to
this is likely to bum out a lot of hold out for the upcoming E7.
folks, and for a few, it might even Here's the full statement:
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and landings at two of
Switzerland's busiest airports.
This latest flight was originally
scheduled to take off earlier this
month, but bad weather
conditions have kept it stuck on
the ground. The Solar Impulse
completed its first 24-hour day-
and-night flight in early July.
Create a Price-Per-Feature
Next on the agenda is a flight List When Buying New
across the Atlantic in 2011, Gadgets [Saving Money]
followed by an around-the-world Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
trip in 2012 using the HB-SIB
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:00:00 AM
prototype being built this summer.
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"The amount of preorders has ordered it already that it'll be
exceeded our expectations and we worth the wait! We expect
are working hard to deliver the consumers to get their Nokia N8s
Nokia N8 to the market. In some during October."
markets, we had planned to start Nokia N8 delayed 'for a few
delivering the Nokia N8s to our weeks to do some final amends'
pre-order customers by the end of originally appeared on Engadget
September. To ensure a great user on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:44:00
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We're thrilled with the response
that we've had to the Nokia N8
and assure everyone who've pre-
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Ubuntu Prototype Showcases Face Recognition to

Manipulate User Interface [Video]
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:37:19 PM

For now, our computers are still

generally accessed by the soon-to-
be-old-fashioned keyboard and
mouse. Even as touchscreens
grow in popularity, we’re still not
losing our main points of input
quite yet. But, that doesn’t mean
the PC has to stay in the “now”
forever. Thanks to Christian
Giordano, it’s been revealed at the
Canonical design blog that
Ubuntu is currently in the process
of creating a prototype that uses
facial recognition, plus other
sensors, to allow users all new
ways to interact with their PC.
The prototype is within a future
build of their Operating System,
and utilizes facial recognition, as
well as proximity and orientation
sensors to tell where, and how
you’re sitting in front of your
PC’s display. The system will
then react to your position,
dependent upon what you’re
doing. For example, if you pop
down to watch a movie, and you
instinctively lean back in your
chair, then the system will
automatically put the video into
full screen mode, so you can see it
better.
Other features include full screen
notifications, so that if you
happen to walk away from your
PC and you get notified of
something, you’ll be able to see it
from another room, perhaps.
Unfortunately, the company
hasn’t outlined when the
prototype software will become
publicly usable or available, but
obviously after watching the
video, we can’t wait.
[ via PC World]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Dell picks Ubuntu as its Linux
distro for consumer PC
• Intel mix face-tracking and
speech-recognition for better
hands-free PC control
• Dual-booting Ubuntu Nexus
One tutorial released [Video]
• Toshiba AirSwing is a Gesture-
Based UI for the Masses [Video]
• T-shirt Augmented Reality &
Face-recognition Twitter
Add a Little Fabric to
Your Walls to Mitigate
Unwanted Noises
[Soundproofing]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:30:00 AM
Living in an apartment with thin
walls means listening to unwanted
noises like a kid with a new
drumset (or something worse).
Some well-placed fabric can help.
More »

Dragon Dictate for Mac now available

Mel Martin (The Unofficial Apple That has now been accomplished, the-art technology. now available originally appeared
Weblog (TUAW)) and today Dragon Dictate is It's nice to see speech regognition on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:30:00 PM available for the Macintosh on the Mac that finally has feature (TUAW) on Mon, 20 Sep 2010
platform-- a reasonably priced parity with the PC versions. There 14:30:00 EST. Please see our
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application. p r o o f r e a d y o u r d i c t a t e d has been updated to new state-of- TUAW Dragon Dictate for Mac
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Gameloft hits 20 million paid iOS downloads

(CNET News.com) iPhone and iPad. The company
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:47:05 PM also continues to develop for
other platforms including
Let's Golf 2 is one of Gameloft's Android, WebOS, and feature
bestsellers.(Credit: Gameloft) phones. In May, Gameloft
Gameloft announced today that it announced that it had hit 330
has sold more than 20 million million paid downloads across all
copies of its paid games on these platforms.
Apple's App Store. This entry passed through the
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Avatar, Iron Man, and Shrek
Forever After. It also has a
number of its own franchises
including Let's Golf, Skater
Nation, Bridge Odyssey, Near
Orbit Vanguard Alliance, and
Asphalt racing.
A quick look at the company's
catalog shows that it has more
than 160 titles available on the
App Store, an increasing number
of which have both an iPhone and
iPad variant, as well as a free or
"lite" version for people who want
to try the game out without
making a purchase. Still, the
company says that out of the 47
titles it has published in the last
nine months, 25 of those have hit
the top spot in Apple's paid games
list, with 42 reaching the top five.
Gameloft says 15 more games are
on the way from the publisher by
the end of the year for both the
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Brainovi Uses Physical 3D Map to Create Braille-Based

Directions
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28 Policy/
Too Few Good Men
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 6:00:00 PM
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
Admiral Michael Mullen,
famously said in 2007 that "in
Afghanistan, we do what we can.
In Iraq, we do what we must."
That strategic view was supposed
to change when Barack Obama
was elected president. It was
candidate Obama, after all, who
argued that the war in Iraq was
the wrong war to be fighting, and
a significant distraction from the
far more important conflict in
Afghanistan.
Accordingly, the new president
announced in March 2009 that he
would add to the 30,000
American forces already in theater
another 21,000 troops, and then,
rejecting Vice President Biden's
advice to scale back the war
effort, decided last December to
add 30,000 more. The only real
criticism from war supporters at
the time focused on the president's
scheduled July 2011 troop
drawdown.
But there is also the equally
important issue of whether the
number of troops to be deployed
is in fact enough to wage a
successful counterinsurgency.
And just as the commander of the
International Security Assistance
Force, as the troops fighting in
Afghanistan are known, General
David Petraeus, has suggested
that next July's drawdown date
might not be set in stone, it would
also be useful to revisit the
number of American troops
committed to Afghanistan. After
all, the 30,000 additional troops
the president called for last
December were less than the
40,000 recommended by
Petraeus's predecessor, General
Stanley McChrystal.
No one wants an open-ended
commitment to Afghanistan. But
from 2001 until now, both the
United States and its allies have
taken an economy of force
approach.
At the time, the president's team
argued that our allies would make
up the deficit. In December 2009,
however, the number of non-
American troops stood at 38,370,
and as of June, the figure was up
by less than 3,000. Even this
limited increase, moreover,
included few forces ready for
frontline counter-insurgency duty.
And since then, 1,500 Dutch
combat soldiers have left
Afghanistan, another 2,800
Canadian forces will be leaving in
2011, and the new government in
London is already talking about
beginning a drawdown as early as
next year. The increased allied
contribution--both in real numbers
and actual combat capacity--is
largely illusory.
Of course, just having enough
"boots on the ground" does not
guarantee a successful
counterinsurgency. As the French
discovered in Algeria and the
Russians in Chechnya, troop
levels alone are not enough to win
an irregular war. But numbers
matter. While it is important to
have a sophisticated
understanding of the "human
terrain" of local customs,
relations, and personalities,
counterinsurgency campaigns
require sufficient forces to clear
and hold, and to do so for an
extended period of time.
Exactly how many troops are
needed to conduct an effective
counterinsurgency campaign has
been the subject of a considerable
amount of research over the last
several years. Some studies focus
on the ratio of counterinsurgent
forces to insurgents, but since the
center of gravity of a successful
counterinsurgency campaign is in
winning the hearts and minds of
the civilian population, most
research looks at force-to-civilian
ratios. The number usually given
is one counterinsurgent per 50
civilians, or 20 per 1,000--a ratio
supported by recent history.
For peacekeeping and
stabilization efforts in Bosnia and
Kosovo, the force to population
ratio was 19:1,000. More
pertinently, the summer following
President Bush's January 2007
decision to surge troops in Iraq,
the ratio of combined security
forces in Iraq (182,000 coalition
forces, 278,000 Iraqi security
forces and tens of thousands of
the Sons of Iraq) to a population
of 27.5 million was virtually dead
on the 20:1,000 mark. By April
2009, the numbers were closer to
29:1,000.
In comparison, the ratio for
Afghanistan at the end of 2009
was only 9:1,000. By the fall of
2010, American force levels will
be just shy of 100,000. Combined
with allied and partner-nation
contributions of some 45,000
troops (many of which are
noncombat), 134,000 Afghan
soldiers and 109,000 Afghan
national policemen (both still on a
steep learning curve), the total
number of security forces will be
less than 390,000, or 280,000
troops short of meeting that 1:20
ratio for an Afghan population of
about 33 million.
Afghanistan is a big place:
approximately one and half times
the size of Iraq with a population
roughly the same size as Iraq's,
but more dispersed. Accordingly,
the game plan had been to narrow
counterinsurgency efforts to a
limited number of population
centers and commercial routes,
predominantly in the southern part
of the country, accepting various
levels of risk in adjacent areas and
other regions. And narrow it is.
For example, in the April report to
Congress on the Afghan
campaign, the Pentagon noted that
ISAF had identified 80 "key
terrain" districts, along with 41
other "area of interest" districts--
out of nearly 400 total districts in
the country. But, the "ISAF Joint
Command (IJC) assessed that, out
of the 121 districts, it had the
resources to conduct operations in
48." And, as Michael O'Hanlon
has recently written in Foreign
Affairs, while the number of
districts with "satisfactory"
security has improved modestly
over the past nine months, "ISAF
currently estimates that only 35
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percent of the priority districts
have 'good' security or better."
That's a problem, even as it has
been argued that the war against
the Taliban is not a country-wide
campaign, but is principally
focused on the Pashtun belt in
southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Two recent incidents, however,
suggest that the insurgency is not
so easily contained. First was the
slaughter of a Christian medical
team in Badakhshan Province in
the ostensibly quiet sector of
northern Afghanistan, and then
there was the public torture and
murder of a pregnant widow in
Badghis in northwestern
Afghanistan. As Bill Roggio
notes, "Just a few years ago,
Badghis province wasn't
considered a security problem.
But over the past three years, the
Taliban have slowly taken control
of districts in Badghis and have
implemented their brutal version
of sharia." Although the strength
of the Taliban and its allies still
lies principally in the south and
the east, their footprint, as
General Petraeus acknowledges,
has expanded outside those areas.
Since 2005, the Taliban has
tripled the number of its shadow
governors, which gives the
insurgents a presence in virtually
every province. According to
NATO's own data, by late 2009
the Taliban was a constant or
periodic hostile presence in about
half the country, with some
capability in the remaining 40
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Environmental Hazards
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 6:00:00 PM
With the ignominious collapse of
cap and trade legislation in the
Senate, the climate campaign is
licking its wounds and wondering
where it went wrong. Greens are
pointing fingers at the bad
economy, the Senate's 60-vote
threshold, and those dastardly
Earth-hating Republicans. But
they ought to look in the mirror,
for the fault lies with themselves.
Politico's environmental reporter
Darren Samuelsohn quoted an
anonymous White House official
speaking disdainfully about the
climate campaign's efforts: "They
didn't deliver a single Republican.
They spent like $100 million, and
they weren't able to get a single
Republican convert on the bill."
Maybe this is because the
environmental movement made a
strategic error years ago by
deciding to make itself an adjunct
of the left wing of the Democratic
party.
The greens have been so
relentlessly hostile to all
Republicans--even ones with
conventionally pro-environment
records--that Republicans have
little reason to accommodate their
views.
At times the greens have been
quite open about this. Back in
2005 a group of leading climate
campaigners met in Aspen to plot
strategy. According to a
conference report Yale University
published, one faction argued that
"the only way to proceed is to
exercise raw political power,
wake up the public about the
urgent nature of the issue, create a
major public demand for action
comparable to that which
stimulated major environmental
legislation in the 1970s, pursue
outright victory at the polls." In
other words, we need to boot out
or roll over the Republicans. The
2008 election delivered their
moment, and now their moment is
gone.
The greens have been so
relentlessly hostile to all
Republicans--even ones with
conventionally pro-environment
records--that Republicans have
little reason to accommodate their
views. Senator Lindsey Graham, a
possible convert on cap and trade,
laid it out clearly to Samuelsohn:
"So when you hear the
environmental community is mad
at you, everyone says, 'Tell me
something new.' It's not like a
support group you've lost."
To be sure, many conservatives
are hostile to the environmental
agenda for good and bad reasons,
and I've made the case that they
owe more serious attention to the
full spectrum of environmental
issues. But the partisan bad faith
of the organized environmental
establishment is glaring.
Consider the case of the first
President Bush, who pushed hard
for a new Clean Air Act in 1990
(most environmental groups
boycotted the signing ceremony
on the White House lawn,
though), and then went to the Rio
Earth Summit in 1992, signing the
U.N. treaty on climate change that
set the Kyoto Protocol process in
motion, and also signing a major
biodiversity treaty. So how many
environmental groups endorsed
Bush for reelection in 1992? In
round numbers: zero.
A better example is the explicitly
political League of Conservation
Voters, which puts out an annual
legislative scorecard that ranks
every member of Congress on
about 20 key votes. Of course an
advocacy group is entitled to
construct a rating system based on
policy outcomes consistent with
its ideology, but the League of
Conservation Voters scorecards
seem especially calculated to
make Republicans look bad and to
carry water for other left-leaning
interest groups with scored votes
that have only minimal
connection to the environment.
The most egregious example is
from the League of Conservation
Voters' 2005 scorecard, where one
of the 20 key Senate votes was the
confirmation of Janice Rogers
Brown to the D.C. Circuit Court
of Appeals. As the League of
Conservation Voters complained,
"Brown has demonstrated a far-
reaching hostility to the idea of
regulating private interests for the
public good ... Acceptance of her
activist positions would threaten
some of the past century's most
basic health and environmental
protections." Brown was
eventually confirmed after a two-
year Democratic filibuster by a
near party-line vote, meaning that
the League of Conservation
Voters' scoring also fell on party
lines.
But there's a surprise ending here.
In her two rulings to date on
environmental issues before the
D.C. Circuit, Brown sided with
unanimous opinions of Clinton
appointees in delivering sweeping
victories to the environmentalist
position on two major Clean Air
Act cases, and against the Bush
administration that appointed her
(South Coast Air Quality
Management District v. EPA,
2006, and New Jersey v. EPA,
2008). Has the League of
Conservation Voters gone back
and rescored this vote since they
were plainly wrong about Brown?
If judicial philosophy is a worry
to the League of Conservation
Voters, moreover, why pick the
Brown confirmation vote to score,
rather than the Supreme Court
confirmation vote that same year
of John Roberts? Not only was
Roberts heading for the top
position on the highest court, he
had challenged the
constitutionality of the
Endangered Species Act in a
dissenting opinion where he spoke
of a "hapless toad" in California.
But 22 Democratic senators voted
to confirm Roberts, versus only
one for Brown--scoring the more
significant Roberts vote instead
would have lowered more
Democratic scores. Scoring the
Brown vote made Republican
moderates like Maine's Susan
Collins and Olympia Snowe look
bad, never mind erstwhile cap and
trade supporters Graham and John
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McCain.
But the final reason the League
of Conservation Voters decided to
score the Brown vote rather than
the Roberts vote is that the activist
left targeted Brown for defeat
because she is an African
American, and the left is terrified
of conservative minorities in
prominent positions. The entire
hive of leftist groups from the
NAACP, NOW, People for the
American Way, and even the
National Council of Jewish
Women opposed Brown's
nomination. The League of
Conservation Voters could be
counted upon to take one for the
team because that's how they roll.
Other left coalition-pleasing but
environmentally dubious scoring
items include opposing free trade
agreements and supporting low-
income energy assistance so poor
people can use more fossil fuels.
The final irony for the greens is
that had John McCain (who
received zeroes on League of
Conservation Voters scorecards in
2007 and 2008) been elected
president instead of Obama (who
almost always scored perfectly for
the League of Conservation
Voters--when he was around to
cast a Senate vote), we'd likely
have a cap and trade bill in place
right now, as McCain would have
made it a higher priority than
health care reform. He had co-
sponsored earlier cap and trade
proposals with Senator Joe
Lieberman.
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The Lame-Duck Session
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 6:00:00 PM
Congress is back, and one thing
is obvious: There is no way they
can complete the amount of work
they have left before the
November election. They still
need to pass most of the spending
bills for a fiscal year that starts in
less than three weeks. On top of
that, they must deal with energy;
the small business tax-incentive
plan; the new Obama "don't call it
a stimulus" stimulus package,
which includes business
investment tax cuts; child
nutrition and food safety; the plan
to aid stricken 9/11 workers; the
START treaty; and the Big
Enchilada: expiration of the Bush
tax cuts. With Democrats
determined to get on the
campaign trail ASAP and the
GOP still in obstruction mode,
only a fraction of these tasks will
actually be accomplished. So
we're likely to end up with a
dreaded lame-duck session.
Republicans have already been
agitating against such a session
for months. Back in August,
Congressman Tom Price of
Georgia, the chairman of the
conservative Republican Study
Committee, forced a vote on a
resolution to block passage of any
controversial policy proposals
during a lame duck. He warned
against secret Democratic plans to
use the session to pass card-check,
an energy tax, and a slew of big
government programs. (The
resolution failed on a largely party
-line vote.)
The looming lame-duck session
will be among the most
interesting of the 17 since 1940.
Similar concerns moved Senator
Mike Johanns of Nebraska to
offer an amendment to the small
business bill that would prevent
Democrats from adding cap-and-
trade provisions during a lame
duck session. "The plan to do cap
and trade in a lame duck is
premised on senators and House
members being free and liberated
from the tethers of the American
people," Johanns explained.
"That's extraordinary, and it's
deeply troubling." The same fears
animate conservative bloggers
like John Fund of the Wall Street
Journal and Marc Theissen of the
Washington Post, who have
fulminated against the Democrats'
sneaky, illegitimate, and
dangerous plans to use the back
door of a lame-duck session to
achieve goals they could not gain
in the regular process.
But hold on: Are any of these
criticisms accurate? Would a lame
-duck session free up lawmakers
to vote in ways they would not
otherwise? Would President
Obama find it easier to bribe
losing lawmakers with jobs in his
administration, as conservative
bloggers have intimated, in order
to secure votes on issues like card
-check and cap-and-trade? More
broadly, would such a session be
unprecedented, or at least highly
unusual, and utterly illegitimate if
done after voters have spoken and
taken a different turn from the
status quo?
Actually, it turns out these
concerns are almost completely
unfounded. If lame-duck sessions
freed up lawmakers to vote
differently than they otherwise
would have, for instance, we
would see radically different
behavior from legislators after
they announce their retirements
(since from that point on, they are
freed from those pesky "tethers").
In fact, there are no discernable
differences in voting patterns for
members of Congress after they
announce they are leaving. And it
would be very difficult for Obama
to bribe legislators with executive
branch appointments: Since the
overwhelming mass of attractive
and available executive posts are
Senate confirmable, and since
Republicans even now can
filibuster and block confirmations,
that concern is a real
conspiratorial stretch.
On the broader point about lame
duck sessions, here is the reality:
Lame duck sessions are
commonplace, with 17 having
been held from 1940 through
2008--or one after every two
elections. To be sure, some were
pro forma and accomplished little;
others were targeted on a single
issue or action. But a number
were quite productive--and that
includes lame duck sessions after
the 1974 and 1982 elections,
before swollen groups of
Democrats were sworn in to
compete with Republican
presidents Gerald Ford and
Ronald Reagan, and after the
1994 elections, before
Republicans took their first
majority in the House in 40 years
and simultaneously took back the
Senate.
The lame-duck session of the
Ninety-Third Congress, after the
Watergate election, approved the
nomination of Nelson Rockefeller
to be vice president, gave the
president broad trade-negotiating
authority, passed a continuing
resolution to substitute for several
appropriations bills that had not
passed, established federal energy
research and development policy,
and enacted, over the vetoes of
President Ford, a vocational
rehabilitation bill and
amendments to the Freedom of
Information Act. The lame duck
after the 1982 election was
acrimonious and partisan, but
Congress managed to pass a
number of delayed appropriations
bills, an increase in the gasoline
tax, and a pay raise for itself. The
post-1994 election lame duck was
focused on one thing, passage of a
major trade bill to implement the
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT), done on a
bipartisan basis. And we can add
the lame-duck session after the
1998 elections, when House
Republicans reconvened to
impeach President Clinton.
The looming lame-duck session
will be among the most
interesting of the 17 since 1940. It
is remotely possible that an
energy bill could limp across the
lame-duck finish line, but the
odds of it including any serious
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carbon cap are slim to none. The
same goes for a tough version of
card-check or any grandiose big
government spending plans. The
START treaty, despite the
endorsements of luminaries like
George Shultz and Henry
Kissinger, and the strong support
of Richard Lugar, remains captive
to the noisy opposition of the
bedrock right; if the 67 votes are
there for it, it will be because
Democrats and Republicans
struck a deal that brought broad,
bipartisan support. Like the
majority of previous lame ducks,
spending bills will be high on the
agenda, but even higher will be
the Bush tax cuts--without any
action in the session, they will all
expire before the new Congress
convenes, including cuts for rich
and non-rich alike, while also
returning the estate tax to its
draconian pre-2001 levels, a $1
million exemption with a 55
percent top rate. This is where to
look for fireworks: The battle
over the tax cuts could provide the
most fascinating example of high-
stakes endgame negotiations in
memory. The rest of the lame
duck? Not revolutionary, not
conspiratorial, not anti-democratic
--just more of the same, like its
many predecessors.
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
scholar at AEI.
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percent.
There's also this: Obama has
deployed fewer actual
counterinsurgents in Afghanistan
than Bush did in Iraq. Bush's
surge included 21,500 soldiers
and Marines ready for combat; the
remaining additional forces
consisted mainly of support
elements, aviation units, and
military police. In contrast, of
Obama's 30,000 just over 15,000
are dedicated, ground-pounding
counterinsurgents, with a higher
percentage going to support and
training. This problem isn't
entirely of Obama's own making.
By the time Bush ordered a troop
increase, the supporting military
infrastructure in Iraq had been
well established, and there was
less need to add more "tail" to
support combat operations. This
has not been so in Afghanistan,
where the country's mountainous
and varied geography and its
isolated location demand more
supporting elements in aviation
and logistics.
Nor does this account for the
bumps in the road that mark most
military campaigns, such as last
February's clearing operation in
Marjah, a onetime Taliban
stronghold in Helmand Province.
With the Pentagon no doubt
pressed to show results quickly
and also not to tie down Marines
who could be used in other
clearing operations, it declared the
town effectively cleared of the
Taliban after two short weeks. But
attempts to turn the town's
security over to Afghan forces
and special police in the weeks
that followed only resulted in the
resurgence of Taliban activity,
whipsawing the townspeople in a
way that means it will take even
longer to assure them that they
should bet on their long-term
security resting with the Afghan
government. Securing Helmand
and Kandahar is probably going
to require more time and more
resources than the optimistic plans
set out by General McChrystal.
This awareness is reflected in
General Petraeus's new guidelines
specifying that ISAF forces will
gradually step back from areas
that have been pacified instead of
trying to hand off the task to the
still maturing Afghan forces all at
once.
The shortage of trainers for the
Afghan Army and the Afghan
police complicates matters
further, as does President Karzai's
insistence on the reduction of
private contractors performing
security missions throughout the
country. Add Pakistan's reluctance
to deal decisively with the
insurgent safe havens on its side
of the border, and it is hard to
escape the conclusion that more
combat-ready troops are needed if
we are to succeed in the Afghan
mission.
In his Foreign Affairs article,
O'Hanlon describes President
Obama's decision last December
to send additional troops to
Afghanistan as his "attempt to
have his cake and eat it, too."
"Obama tried to be muscular
enough to create a chance to win
the war while at the same time
keeping the war's critics
acquiescent." But being too clever
by half is no way to run a war.
And the addition of a July 2011
timeline for the start of a
drawdown only compounds the
error. In the absence of some
compelling necessity--which in
this case does not exist--it is
absurd to fix either hard deadlines
or troop levels.
No one wants an open-ended
commitment to Afghanistan. But
from 2001 until now, both the
United States and its allies have
taken an economy of force
approach. There were enough
troops to topple the Taliban and
then just enough to keep
Afghanistan from reverting to
Taliban control. There have never
been enough forces, however, to
defeat them and to stabilize the
country. With the addition of
30,000 American troops, there
will undoubtedly be progress. But
it would be a strategic roll of the
dice to expect to win this war by
hoping we have "just enough"
forces to carry out the campaign
successfully.
It is difficult to say with precision
what the number of additional
troops should be. That would
require familiarity with in-theater
intelligence about the enemy as
well as a realistic assessment of
the rate at which Afghan troops
and police will become self-
sufficient. But as a start, we might
revisit General McChrystal's
assessment that 40,000 more
troops were needed--not the
30,000 that were sent and have
only just fully arrived. Adding
three Army combat brigades,
some 10,000 troops, would give
commanders more flexibility to
act with the kind of resoluteness
that marked the surge in Iraq in
2007 and that allowed it to
succeed.
Gary J. Schmitt is a resident
scholar and the director of
advanced strategic studies at AEI.
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Response to Nouriel Roubini on "America Needs a Payroll Tax

Cut"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael easy-credit years). production) won't work because U.S. federal payroll tax employer profits, but that does not mean
Shedlock) (Mish's Global Proportion is critical in designing businesses will not hire just to get
contribution it would save businesses will hire. In fact, as
Economic Trend Analysis) the payroll tax cuts. Small and a tax break. There has to be a employers 6.2% for Social noted above, they won't.
Submitted at 9/20/2010 3:01:00 AM medium-size enterprises have had legitimate need for businesses to Security (for wages up to Thus, Roubini's proposal, as
Nouriel Roubini makes the case it rough the past three years. They hire. For there to be a legitimate $106,800 and nothing after that), weighted, would help Wall Street
What America needs is a payroll are scrambling for operating need, there has to be genuine and precisely 1.45% for Medicare. more than Main Street. It
tax cut. Nearly three years since capital as banks hold reserves consumer demand. Will a Pizza Hut, Home Depot, addresses the symptoms and not
the onset of the financial crisis, tightly, and they face higher Plight of Small Businesses Citigroup, Bank of America, the disease.
the continued weakness of the borrowing costs than large I have written extensively about home builder, or specialized small Consumer Attitudes Are The Key
labor and real estate markets, U.S. corporations when they do find the plight of small businesses. manufacturer hire someone Let's turn to the consumer side of
consumers' unbalanced balance willing lenders. To maximize the Here are some examples. because of tax breaks? Would the proposal. The #1 factor
sheets and fading support from incentives for private-sector anyone? affecting small businesses is lack
policy stimulus have transformed hiring, there should be sharper • August 03, 2010: Wells Fargo/ I think not. The maximum of customers. Would cutting taxes
the risk of a double-dip recession reductions to the payroll taxes Gallup Small Business Index Hits possible saving, assuming we for the average Joe encourage
from unlikely to about a 40 paid by employers than for those Record Low, Future Expectations f o r g a v e a l l e m p l o y e r more spending?
percent likelihood. paid by employees. Dip Below Zero First Time Ever contributions, is 7.65%. Health Ultimately one can count on it.
The administration knows that it Low-income workers have • August 20, 2010: Small care costs have been going up Initially, many consumers will
needs to fashion a revenue-neutral historically shown a much higher Businesses are Not Hiring - Why more than that! take every cent and pay down
fiscal stimulus that increases labor propensity to consume when Should They? Unless and until businesses can debt. However, paying down debt
demand and consumption. Its given extra money, so the payroll • August 24, 2010: Another add employees that will increase is a good thing. Over time, as
proposal to make permanent a tax cut should be designed to Atlas Shrugs - Small Business the bottom line, they won't hire, consumer balance sheets are
research and development tax provide a larger-percentage break Owners Chime In tax breaks or not. Perhaps it will repaired, people will spend. More
credit that dates to the 1980s, and to those on the low end of the • September 06: Labor Day make a difference for some spending will promote hiring.
t h e n t o e n a c t a t e m p o r a r y income scale compared with the Insanity from Clinton's Secretary marginal businesses sitting on the Philosophically Speaking, I Like
investment tax credit allowing upper middle class. of Labor fence wondering if they should Business Tax Cuts
firms to write down capital Stimulating Production a Mistake hire one more employee, but that Philosophically speaking, I am all
investments at 100 percent of at this Juncture For several quarters, the number is the practical extent of it. in favor of businesses keeping
cost, are welcome -- but too Certainly some of what Roubini one problem in every NFIB report In a sense, the proposal is more money and consumers
modest a cure for what ails the says makes sense. For example, it is lack of customers. something like firing a shotgun keeping more money. The less
economy. makes little sense to stimulate The number two and number over a swamp hoping to kill money that goes to Washington
A much better option is for the c a p i t a l e x p e n d i t u r e s a n d three problems are Obama's mosquitoes. the better. However, we must look
administration to reduce the production when there is a glut of healthcare "solution" and business Arguably, payroll tax reductions at the proposal as laid out, to see
payroll tax for two years. The overcapacity already. uncertainty in general. will keep some marginal if it meets the stated objective of
reduced labor costs would lead Unwarranted stimulating of While business tax reductions businesses alive, preventing stimulating the economy and
employers to hire more; for production is one of the reasons will help profits, payroll tax layoffs. Then again, marginal getting businesses to hire.
employees, the increased take- tax credits for news homes fell reductions will not address the businesses need to go out of Targeting businesses with payroll
home pay would boost much- flat on its face. The last thing we underlying structural problems, business. Keeping them alive is a tax reductions will not do nearly
needed economic consumption needed to do was encourage nor will they address the problem bad thing. as much as middle class tax cuts.
and advance the still-crucial homebuilders to build more of too few customers. A look at Proposal Helps Wall Street More Complete Economic Overhaul
p r o c e s s o f d e l e v e r a g i n g houses. the math will show why. Than Main Street Needed
households (paying down credit What Roubini misses is that Employer Tax Break Math Lowering employer payroll taxes RESPONSE page 38
card debt and other legacies of the attempts to stimulate hiring (thus If we completely eliminated the certainly will help business
34 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Good News: The Great Recession is Over; Bad News: It Doesn't

Feel Like It
noreply@blogger.com (Michael The New York Times comments deep recession, when someone Given the structural problems in problems are. Instead everyone
Shedlock) (Mish's Global on the Fears of Never Working unemployed in that age group the US, there is no strong reason wants to "stimulate" something,
Economic Trend Analysis) Again spent an average of 27.5 weeks to think this decade will be much typically by throwing money at
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:01:00 PM Of the 14.9 million unemployed, finding work. better than the last. I talked about problems.
According to the NBER, at long more than 2.2 million are 55 or At this year’s pace of an average those structural problems in This is why the problems are
l a s t t h e g r e a t r e c e s s i o n i s older. Nearly half of them have of 82,000 new jobs a month, it Response to Nouriel Roubini unlikely to be fixed, and this is
officially over. Bloomberg reports been unemployed six months or will take at least eight more years regarding "America Needs a why we are likely to remain in a
Worst U.S. Recession Since longer, according to the Labor to create the 8 million positions Payroll Tax Cut" stagnant economy that produces
1930s Ended in June 2009. The Department. The unemployment lost during the recession. And that Roubini says "America Need a few jobs for the remainder of the
longest and deepest U.S. recession rate in the group — 7.3 percent — does not even allow for Payroll Tax Cut". decade.
since the Great Depression ended is at a record, more than double population growth. Assuming it I say what America needs most While the recession is over, it
in June 2009, lasting 18 months, what it was at the beginning of the does take 8 more years to create 8 right now is an honest appraisal of certainly does not feel like it.
the National Bureau of Economic latest recession. million jobs, of one accounts for the sorry economic mess we are Moreover, because we fail to
Research said. According to a Gallup poll in population growth, in, politicians who will work in address the structural issues, the
“The committee decided that any April, more than a third of people unemployment will be 8% or genuine bipartisan effort to odds of slipping back into another
future downturn of the economy not yet retired plan to work more all the way to 2020. tackle our numerous structural recession are exceptionally high.
would be a new recession and not beyond age 65, compared with Indeed America has Lost One problems, and willpower from Mike "Mish" Shedlock
a continuation of the recession just 12 percent in 1995. Decade - Another One in Progress everyone to make short-term h t t p : / /
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strength of the recovery to date.” policy and director of the John J. • Poverty level is the highest of the middle class. for SitkaPacific Capital
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economy falling back into another weeks, according to the Labor kids under six in 2009, compared Fed and Congress. So far, we do
recession are about 25 percent, Department, the longest of any to 21.3% a year earlier not even have an admission by the
Kasman said. Over 50 and Never age group. That is much worse President, by Congress, or by
Working Again than in August 1983, also after a What America Really Needs most economists as to what the
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Jeremy Siegel: Just A Small Uptick In Interest Rates Will
Hammer Your 'Risk Free' Government Bond Fund
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:38:00 PM
Much of the recent bond-buying
frenzy has come in the form of
investor flows into bond funds,
not just individual bonds, and
when it comes to U.S.
government bonds the difference
between owning an individual
government bond and owning part
of a bond fund is enormous.
Most importantly, a U.S.
government bond guarantees a
return of your principal upon
maturity, but an bond fund that
invests in U.S. government bonds
does not. The main reason for this
is that bond funds generally don't
hold bonds until maturity. Instead,
they trade in and out of them,
partly in order to maintain their
mandated exposure.
For example, a fund billed as a 7-
10 year government bond fund
cannot be sitting on a pile of
originally 10-year bonds which
have only two years left before
maturity. It will sell its bonds
before maturity as they age, and
buy fresh ones that meet its
mandate.
Because of this, investors can
realize substantial losses even on
a U.S. government bond fund,
even if they hold their bond fund
without selling it. This is
something we learned a long time
ago, personally, when holding a
Treasury Inflation Protected
Securities (TIPS) bond fund
Economy/ 35
instead of owning actual TIPS loss can be devastating to a
outright. portfolio.
On this topic, Jeremy Siegel Finally, Mr. Siegel reminds us
highlights the danger of bond how hoping to jump out of bonds
investments right now, in his before interest rates rise is a fools
latest rebuttal of those who game:
believe we're aren't in the midst of Oh, were it only so easy! Traders
a bond bubble: in Treasury bonds do not wait for
Jeremy Siegel:[emphasis added] Fed announcements. Well before
Many critics objected to our the Federal Reserve raises the
analogy between high-flying tech Federal funds rate, long-term
stocks and treasury securities. interest rates will have risen and
Stocks, of course, have no the price of Treasury bonds will
guaranteed return, while the U.S. be down. In fact, if we get a string
government guarantees both of even moderately strong
coupons and principal of Treasury economic news over the
bonds. This guarantee means that remainder of this year, we will see
an investor who holds his bonds the 10-year Treasury yield well
to maturity will always receive a above 3% by December, imposing
specified dollar return, quite substantial losses on current
over the next year, interest rates ended August at 3.52%, returns to
unlike a stock investor. bondholders.
on the 10-year Treasury rise to a its April high, bondholders will
But the words "hold to maturity" Similar to housing investors who
level reached last April of 3.99%, suffer a loss of 17%. If yields
are critical. Investors are piling hoped to jump out before the
the return on the bond is negative reach the average level it has been
into funds that do not hold these market collapsed, or Dot Com
9% (including interest paid). If over the past 30 years of 7.3%,
bonds until maturity. Funds sell investors who wanted to sell high-
rates rise to 5.30%, the level the bondholder will experience a
bonds nearing maturity and priced stocks before the crash,
reached before the financial crisis, price a decline of 50%, equal in
replace them with similar bonds most people will fail. What makes
the loss will double to 18%. If the magnitude to the worst bear
of longer maturity. That means the situation more worrying than a
10-year interest rate rises to the markets in stocks in the past 50
that if interest rates rise, these stock bubble is the fact that the
record postwar level of 15.84%, years. For those investing in bond
bondholders will take a permanent majority of retirement assets is in
the loss will be 73%, far worse funds, these losses will never be
loss on their portfolio. bonds, and investors have shifted
than any bear market in stocks recovered unless interest rates
Here's where things get nasty. heavily out of stocks and into
(including the last one) since the return to current levels.
The losses on what many perceive bonds over the last few years. Mr.
Great Depression. All these are Again, to put these potential
to be low risk investments, thus Siegel is recommending high
computed from the 2.47% rate losses in context, note that A)
hold a large quantity of, can be dividend stocks with stable
reached by the 10-year Treasury they just require a small back-
substantial even for small interest dividend payment histories that
on August 31. track in interest rates, just back to
rate movements. This is due to the earn profits that comfortably
The potential losses on 30-year A p r i l l e v e l s , a n d B ) m a n y
depressed level of bond yields cover their dividends, which we
Treasury bonds, which are often investors hold vastly larger
currently on offer in the market: tend to agree with, but...
used to fund IRAs and 401(k) quantities of money in bonds than
Interest rates do not have to rise Worst case, if you are adamant
accounts, are much worse. If the stocks under the assumption that
much for Treasury bond investors JEREMY page 39
30-year treasury yield, which they are low risk, thus even a 10%
to realize substantial losses. If,
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Recently Introduced Actuarially Unsound Methods Hide Pension

Mess in Illinois, Texas, Ohio; $3 Trillion Pension Deficit in Total
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Shedlock) (Mish's Global Island also raised its retirement calculations, that assumption has in WA; Calpers Bargains with Jersey are not much better.
Economic Trend Analysis) age for future retirees last year, a powerful effect. It reduces the Schwarzenegger; "Fairy-Tale Hopefully the SEC will have
Submitted at 9/19/2010 7:46:00 PM after being told it could save $90 amount a government must put Promises" in NJ; "No Choice" in something more to say about
It's no secret that Illinois, New million in the first year alone. into its workers’ pension fund NY; Lawsuits in CO, SD, MN never-ending foolishness to
Jersey, and numerous other states The technique is fairly innocuous every year. over Pensions for a partial list of mask the huge and growing
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pension plans. The problem is far governments to smooth out their not work this way,” said Jeremy few states are doing about it. that stirs any brain waves in
worse than it looks because of labor costs over many years. But Gold, an independent actuary in Illinois, along with Texas, Ohio, Springfield, Illinois or any other
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barring them from counting essence, that 100 percent of South Dakota, and Minnesota all tackle this massive issue, instead
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New IRS Reporting Rules to Hit eBay and Paypal; Government
Crackdown on Trinket Sellers; Campaign Bribes and Tax Policy
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 5:06:00 PM
Inquiring minds are interested in
2011 tax policy changes that will
affect sellers of merchandise on
eBay. John R writes .... Starting
next year Paypal will have to start
reporting to the IRS. The selling
limits will be 200 items or $20K
before they report. This tax
change was part of the ’08
stimulus.
Reporting on 200 items annually
is a real killer. That’s a mere 17
items a month. We’ve already
shut our eBay business down. It's
simply not worth the effort.
Most eBay/auction site margins
are extremely low. Thus, I wonder
how many people will set up a
business, keep the books, pay
state and federal taxes, just to
make a few bucks.
Thanks,
John New Form 1099-K will
debut for 2011 tax year
John is discussing eBay Sellers
and Tax Changes
Tax time is upon us again, and
this year the IRS has a bit of a
warning for eBay sellers: next
year you'll be on the hook for the
taxes you owe.
Enter the 2011 Form 1099-K
Though sellers won't have to
change their filing habits in 2010,
a new Form 1099-K for 2011
promises to change income
reporting by online sellers. The
draft Form 1099-K for 2011
implements payments reporting to
the IRS for PayPal and credit card
merchants, much as already
happens with forms W-2 or 1099-
MISC for employees and
independent contractors.
Starting in 2011, therefore,
sellers will be expected to report
gross payments via online or
credit card payments that coincide
with reported 1099-K amounts,
then to make adjustments to
account for expenses and cash
equivalents, fees, chargebacks,
refunds, and so on.
Details and Caveats
As a practical matter, if you're an
eBay seller, this will affect you
unless your gross sales are under
$20,000 for the year or you
receive fewer than 200
transactions. Reporting for small
sellers at this level is not required.
Otherwise, if you exceed this
volume, you'll be required to
provide tax identification
information (SSN or EIN number,
for example) to payment
processors like PayPal and will be
expected by the IRS to account in
your return for the amounts
reported on your 1099-K form(s).
The 1099-K form wasn't
introduced for the 2010 tax year,
so as you do your taxes this year,
enjoy the last year you'll report
eBay income as a purely
voluntary matter. Government
Crackdown on Trinket Sellers
How many hobbyists like John
will just say the hell with it? If
enough do, it could impact eBay's
earnings. Imagine selling 20 items
a month, earning a few hundred
dollars a year or less in profit, and
having to spend time and money
keeping track of all the costs
associated with the effort.
I am not trying to justify non-
payment of taxes, I am simply
looking at this from a practical
standpoint.
Corporate Earnings Reported to
Shareholders vs. Corporate
Earnings Reported to the IRS
Just for grins, take a look at big
corporation earnings reported to
shareholders as compared to
earnings as reported to the
government. Which one is fiction
and which one is real?
Is either legitimate? I doubt it,
and in opposite directions. If I am
correct, where should government
be spending its time and energy?
Loopholes for the Little Guy vs.
Loopholes for Large Corporations
Every conceivable loophole, no
matter how small, is closed for the
little guy, while major
corporations have tax avoidance
loopholes worth hundreds of
billions of dollars.
For example, multinational
corporations get to defer profits
on taxes held overseas.
Adding insult to injury, there
have been semi-regular "tax
holidays" where corporations get
to repatriate offshore accounts at
low rates, to the major advantage
of large corporations and huge
disadvantage of small US based
corporations.
Such policies encourage the
flight of jobs and money from the
US.
So, here we go again, cracking
down on the little guy in attempts
to pick up pennies to balance the
budget, ignoring hundreds of
billions of dollars over the years
to large corporations.
Campaign Bribes and Tax Policy
Please note that I am in favor of
lower corporate taxes as long as it
is done fairly (right now
multinationals and large
corporations have huge
advantages) and as long as we can
afford it.
Instead, we have a system that
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rewards capital flight, rewards job
flight, and punishes small
businesses relative to larger
corporations.
This mess happens because
lobbyists for large corporations
write our tax code, with
politicians taking campaign
contributions (bribes) in return for
the favor.
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Could There Be A Run On An ETF?
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:17:45 PM
Individuals have gone ga-ga over
ETFs as a means to gain exposure
to broader markets, asset classes,
or industries without having to dip
in and pay for the underlying.
But the cost of these ETFs might
be a future collapse, according to
a post this weekend from FT
Alphaville.
What we found most interesting
was that ETF investors may not
actually own a representative
share of what the believe they do.
From Andrew A. Bogan, Ph D.,
Brendan Connor, and Elizabeth C.
Bogan, PH D.(emphasis ours):
Take the SPDR S&P Retail ETF
(NYSE: XRT) as an example. The
number of shares short was nearly
95 million at the end of June,
while the shares outstanding of
the ETF were just 17 million. The
ETF was over 500% net short! Or
to look at it from another
perspective, the ETF’s operator,
State Street Global Advisors,
believed that there were 17
million shares of the SPDR S&P
Retail ETF in existence and
owned shares in the S&P Retail
Index portfolio to underlie those
17 million ETF shares. But, in the
marketplace there were another 95
million shares of the ETF owned
by investors who had purchased
them (unknowingly) from short
sellers.
And this situation could end up
exploding as investors find out
they don't actually own anything.
In both cases the share buyer,
however, is completely unaware
his ETF shares were purchased
from a short-seller and no doubt
assumes the underlying assets in
the index are being held by the
ETF operator on his behalf, but no
such underlying stock is actually
held by anyone. Clearly this
creates a serious counterparty risk
and quite possibly the potential
for a run on an ETF—where the
assets held by the fund operator
could become insufficient to meet
redemptions.
The potential fallout from this
sort of scenario is massive.
At recent prices the unfunded
remaining ownership in the
marketplace for which nobody
currently owns any shares would
be over $3 billion for just this one
ETF! Extend this hidden
unfunded liability from massive
scale short-selling of ETFs (both
traditional and naked) across the
entire ETF spectrum and it is
a$100 billion potential problem.
So what this means is that ETF
investment you think you are
buying to represent an underlying
group of equities may not actually
be able to be redeemed in the
event of a run on the ETF.
But what would trigger a run on
an ETF? If there were to be a
dramatic fall in a particular
exchange, say a flash crash due to
malfunctioning algorithms,
investors may decide to pull their
money out rather than wait.
If in the case of the SPDR S&P
Retail ETF that is about 17
million shares. But there are way
more people who believe they
own the real thing out there. If
"owners" were to try to redeem
more than 17 million shares, the
whole thing could go haywire.
There is serious dispute of this
theory questioning if, whether, if
there was too much demand for
redemption what would actually
occur. The reality may be that
shorts are able to purchase new
shares of the ETF issued to payout
to the longs. But the rebuttal to
that is that the shorts are so large
on some of these ETFs, that
redemption may become
impossible.
The debate can be read in the
comments at FT Alphaville. But
tthis is surely a subject worth
paying attention to. Read the full
piece at FT Alphaville >
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MANY people complain that that they dislike being poor more
conventional measures of GDP than they like being rich, they
fail to capture a country’s true should prefer more egalitarian
standard of living. But their societies, everything else equal.
attempts to improve on these For these reasons, the authors
conventional metrics are ad hoc. calculate that France and America
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rather than a government bond rates go the wrong way.
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live?
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:00:00 PM
If you've ever been strapped for
cash, you've probably thought
about the value of a dollar and the
importance of making it stretch.
Faced with a financial disaster or
a hemorrhaging bank account,
suddenly the memories of
blowing savings on extravagant
iPod accessories come rushing
back. In the midst of researching
the resale value of iPod gloves, it
strikes you that it's time to reduce
expenditures and simplify your
life to make ends meet. But just
how much money does it take to
get by? To find out, we have to
distinguish needs from wants.
That can be a difficult task.
Banking Pictures
Even when headlines report bad
news about unemployment rates
and ballooning inflation, the
poorest people in developed
economies are doing better than
most of their ancestors did.
Economist Julian Simon says that
there may be no free lunch, but at
least it's getting cheaper and
cheaper [source: Simon]. We
don't have to live like monks and
take a vow of poverty to live
comfortably. But, on the other
hand, as our standards of life
skyrocket, so do our expectations.
For example, most of us couldn't
go without our cell phones for one
day. When asked if we really need
them, we can argue "for my job"
or "in emergencies." We probably
won't die without them. But such
a utilitarian definition of "needs"
arguably takes the life out of
living.
So where do we draw the line
when we budget? Do we make
allowances for our physical and
mental health? Although we may
get rid of gym memberships and
days at the spa, should we cut
healthy-but-pricey foods from
grocery lists and stop the
occasional trip to the movies?
Then there's the saving face
factor. Economics expert Adam
Smith argues that social
embarrassment plays a part in
determining necessities of life
[source: Smith]. For instance, if
not owning a microwave oven
makes other people think you live
in poverty, it counts as a necessity
from a social persp-ective. But
people got along fine without
microwaves for millennia.
Although it's nearly impossible to
determine a definitive dollar
amount to answer our question,
it'll help to look at one standard:
the United States Census Bureau's
poverty threshold.
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American Fashion: Designers at the Aldyn
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:30:47 AM
As fashion week was ending last
week, American Fashion:
Designers at the Aldyn
Showhouse was just beginning. It
is a showhouse of fashionable
interiors inspired by the book
American Fashion Designers at
Home published by Assouline and
the CFDA. Each of the 22 rooms
pairs an interior designer with a
fashion designer or icon as their
inspiration. It's such a chic
concept that I'm surprised they
didn't think of it before!
The first room I toured was
designed by Jennifer McGee and
inspired by Babe Paley "who
Vogue magazine declared "the
absolute Fashion Icon of the
1950's.' She was the ultimate in
glamour, elegance, style, and
taste." The same could be said of
the room that was designed in her
honor.
I'm not a big fan of big glass
buildings. Sure have great views
but they also present problems
Funny Logo Mash-ups (15 total)
Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 5:00:00 PM
Companies use logos to create up with another, as though a
global brand recognition. In fact, fictional merger has taken place.
the tiny icon can be so powerful Creator Nora Reed says: "Lately,
that, when we see them, we I have been creating my versions
instantly think about their product of corporate mergers and how
or service.
such as how to cover the large
windows, weird angles and
unsightly HVAC units. Jennifer
McGee not only successfully
solved all these problems but also
succeeded in warming up the cold
white space. I absolutely loved
her room.
Canopy beds can be tough to pull
off since they can end up looking
In this set, we take a look at
company logos that we all know
and love. But instead of looking at
them individually, we mash them
were mashed up. Now let me
make it clear here that I do not
their logos would look like if they
too frilly or feminine but I think it
helps warm up this space and
envelope the occupant. Jennifer
said that her male clients love
them and I think this tailored
design must win them over. The
pretty patterned fabric is from
Holland & Sherry.
Jennifer McGee said that "in a
nod to Babe's induction in the
Culture/ 41
Fashion Hall of Fame, we
combined the mix of neutral
colors, lush fabrics, period
antiques, and Modern art. Babe's
room would not be complete
without the fabulous Billy
Baldwin signature slipper chairs."
I love that the room mixes a
Lucite console and an antique
secretary below. It's these types of
pairings that make rooms look
fresh and not so staid. Babe Paley
thought "a room should be fun
and personal" and I definitely
think she's approve of this one.
Designer Jennifer McGee of
Jennifer McGee Design in her One Last Look
room.
The American Fashion:
Designers at the Aldyn opens
at Summer (20
September 21st and runs through
December 10th. Admission is
photos)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
$25 and benefits the Council of
Modern Metropolis)
Fashion Designers of America. It
is located at 60 Riverside Submitted at 9/20/2010 6:00:00 PM
Boulevard at West 63rd Street.
For tickets and information call With the last days of summer
now upon us, what better way to
(212) 579-6006 or thealdyn.com.
Photos by Heather Clawson for reminisce about this spectacular
season than with some
Habitually Chic
breathtaking photography?
Peruvian illustrator Daniela
Carvalho takes us on a wonderful
journey through her photo blog,
156 Non-Working Days. Not only
mean to insult or ridicule any
do we get to experience the idyllic
corporate logo design in anyway.
beaches of Costa Rica and Spain,
Unlike the logo parodies, my sole
we're left smiling after seeing
purpose here is to demonstrate
some of the sweet illustrations
how amusing it would be if
she's laid on top of her photos.
famous brand names
Daniela Carvalho
amalgamate."
Thanks, Abi, for the tip!
via logo blog
42 Culture/
21 Imaginative Illustrations
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 4:30:00 PM
I Dream a Dream
An illustrator and visual artist
living and working in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, Heng Swee
Lim is the ultimate doodler. "I
love doodling, this is why all
these started." he says. "Thru
illustrations and designs, i hope
I’ll be able to doodle a smile on
people’s face."
His website, in fact, is called I
Love Doodle and it's packed with
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Katy and Rihanna Mix Bikinis
and Booze For a Bachelorette
Weekend in Vegas
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:34:00 PM
Rihanna stuck by Katy Perry's
side in Las Vegas on Saturday as
they went from the pool to the
club for Katy's bachelorette party.
Katy arrived in Sin City after an
unfortunate altercation on Friday
at LAX, where her fiancé Russell Grand. It was Rihanna who wore
Brand was arrested for defending white, though, as they moved on
her when a photographer tried to to Vanity to continue their long
take an inappropriate photo. day of drinking. Katy's joked
Russell posted bail and was about the getaway being the"last
released the same day, later joking party of her life" before marrying
on Twitter, "Thanks for your sensitive and sweet Russell in a
sweet messages of support. After ceremony rumored to be
the tips I picked up in chokey I'm happening soon.
an infinitely more proficient
criminal." Katy didn't let the turn
of events ruin her weekend, as she To see more from Katy's
donned a white swimsuit with a bachelorette weekend, just read
veil attached to party at the Hard
Rock Hotel's pool with friends.
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Malaysian artist Chow Hon Lam, In Search of Sunshine
Lim's designs all have a clever or Jailbreak
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imaginative works of art that Nightmare
make us see the world in a more Solar System
colorful and creative way. The Messenger
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'Boardwalk Empire': Episode One
Matt Zoller Seitz (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:00:00 PM
The gangster genre can be as
cliched and unimaginative as any
other popular genre, but even the
worst examples have something
bracing, even liberating, at their
core: they categorically reject the
ideology that Americans are force
-fed since birth. This is a free
country, government is of the
people and by the people,
democracy works, there's no class
system, it's a level playing field,
anybody can be anything they
want, blah blah blah: the gangster
story hears these bromides, spits
on the sidewalk and drives to the
nearest strip joint, tires screaming.
Henry Hill, the gangster narrator
of Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas,
dismisses such sentiments as
"good-government bullshit,"
adding, "To us, those goody-good
people who worked shitty jobs for
bum paychecks and took the
subway to work and worried
about bills were dead. They were
suckers. They had no balls. If we
wanted something, we just took
it." The organizing social
principle of the gangster film is
the tribe, and by this logic, no
matter what fancy names we hang
on its more sophisticated variants,
we're still a tribal people. And
whether you're a CEO, an office
drone or a racketeer, the drive to
make money and expand territory
still boils down to this: get
whatever you can, any way you
can, and do it to the other guy
before he does it to you.
Scorsese's gangster movies are all
founded on this cynical (or
depending on your point-of-view,
realistic) outlook. HBO's most
acclaimed and controversial
drama, "The Sopranos," built on
that movie's foundation, taking its
suburbanized gangster milieu and
spinning it out into a six-season
satirical epic about the difference
between what what Americans
profess to stand for and what they
actually do. It seems fitting,
maybe inevitable, that Scorsese
and "The Sopranos" would one
day join forces like an old don
and an up-and-coming young
punk making common cause. The
summit occurs in the pilot of
HBO's new series "Boardwalk
Empire," which was directed by
Scorsese, created by "Sopranos"
producer Terence Winter, and co-
executive produced by Winter and
Tim van Patten, who directed
many of the most explosively
violent episodes of "The
Sopranos." Based on Nelson
Johnson's nonfiction book
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth,
High Times and Corruption of
Atlantic City, it's a sprawling,
overpopulated series that
supposedly boasts the largest
recurring cast ever assembled for
a television program —even
bigger than "Deadwood" and
"Rome," both series that
"Boardwalk's" main set, an
elaborate recreation of Prohibition
-era Atlantic City, sometimes
evokes.
The pilot episode introduces
many of the major characters,
starting with a flashback to a
robbery on a moonlit road. A
load of whiskey offloaded from a
ship changes hands. Who are the
bootleggers? Who are the gunmen
that take the booze away from
them? And how are they
connected to “Nucky” Thompson
(Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of
Atlantic City and a seemingly
mild-mannered public official
who's introduced speaking to a
roomful of temperance-minded
women who support the
constitutionally mandated
eradication of the demon rum?
Suffice to say that the Scorsese-
Sopranos brand of looking-
through-you cynicism is very
much in place, and that Scorsese
and Winter establish their
animosity toward apple-pie
ideology right out of the gate.
Speaking to the temperance
activists, Nucky relates a
horrifying incident from his
childhood, in which he was
abandoned by his boozer dad
during the blizzard of 1888 and
clubbed three wharf rats to death
to feed his family. This
heartrending tale turns out to be a
lie, a politician telling a crowd
what they obviously want to hear.
Nucky is one of numerous
"Boardwalk Empire" characters
with two selves, public and
private. There's another kind of
character, though—one who is
consistent no matter who he's
dealing with. The first type of
person tends to sync up with the
criminal element, while the
second type opposes it. (The latter
category includes this show's
version of Eliot Ness—Michael
Shannon's creepy hardcase federal
agent, Van Alden, who tells a
fellow agent that enforcing
Prohibition is "a godly pursuit"
and doesn't seem to be kidding.)
The opposition between these two
types—characters who are what
they appear to be, and characters
who aren't—drives the debut and
will animate the rest of the
season.
If you grew up on history
textbooks that adopted a neutral
attitude toward Prohibition, the
first half-hour of the "Boardwalk"
pilot might carry an electrifying
charge. It's clear that aside from
the ladies of the temperance union
and a handful of other would-be
reformers, nobody sees the new
law as anything but a huge
nuisance. Scorsese's facility for
staging large, colorful events—his
camera gliding through crowds,
panning and lunging to pick out
colorful bits of action—is
showcased in the party counting
down to Prohibition becoming
law. It's a parody of a wake for a
loved one who isn't actually
dying, just going into hiding for a
while. (There's a wonderful image
of a baby carriage filled with
liquor bottles that embodies the
idea that the supposed death of
drinking signals the birth of a new
criminal culture.) Post-
Prohibition, the question becomes
not, "Will we be able to enjoy life
without alcohol" but "How will
we get our booze now, and how
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much will it cost us?" Nucky is
poised to make a fortune from this
new conundrum because he spans
two worlds, legitimate and
illegitimate. Or maybe it's more
accurate to say that Nucky's
character expresses the idea that
the worlds aren't as separate as
one might like to think. From the
ritualized, no-big-deal handing
out of bribes and tribute payments
in the "Boardwalk" pilot to the
shameless collusion of gangster,
labor leaders, cops and even
judges in GoodFellas, the
Scorsese-Sopranos mentality
insists that there isn't as much
difference between the two.
Watching character after character
pocket ill-gotten cash in
"Boardwalk" as if it's just another
job benefit, I was reminded of a
great line from Sweet Smell of
Success: "My left hand hasn't seen
my right hand in thirty years."
"Deadwood" and "Rome" mingled
invented characters and plots with
people and events drawn from
history. "Boardwalk" does
likewise, getting into the logistical
details of implementing the
Volstead Act and setting up an
elaborate, disagreement-turned-
feud between Nucky's
organization and mobsters from
Chicago (the series' other major
location), while reserving the
right to embellish the record in the
name of drama. Nucky, for
instance, is based on real-life
Atlantic City boss Enoch "Nucky"
Johnson, and while the gist of the
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Norman Ornstein (The New
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Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:00:00 PM
Congress is back, and one thing
is obvious: There is no way they
can complete the amount of work
they have left before the
November election. They still
need to pass most of the spending
bills for a fiscal year that starts in
less than three weeks. On top of
that, they must deal with energy;
the small business tax-incentive
plan; the new Obama “don’t call it
a stimulus” stimulus package,
which includes business
investment tax cuts; child
nutrition and food safety; the plan
to aid stricken 9/11 workers; the
START treaty; and the Big
Enchilada: expiration of the Bush
tax cuts. With Democrats
determined to get on the
campaign trail ASAP and the
GOP still in obstruction mode,
only a fraction of these tasks will
actually be accomplished. So
we're likely to end up with a
dreaded lame-duck session.
Republicans have already been
agitating against such a session
for months. Back in August,
Congressman Tom Price of
Georgia, the chairman of the
conservative Republican Study
Committee, forced a vote on a
resolution to block passage of any
controversial policy proposals
during a lame duck. He warned
against secret Democratic plans to
use the session to pass card-check,
an energy tax, and a slew of big
government programs. (The
resolution failed on a largely party
-line vote.)
Similar concerns moved Senator
Mike Johanns of Nebraska to
offer an amendment to the small
business bill that would prevent
Democrats from adding cap-and-
trade provisions during a lame
duck session. “The plan to do cap
and trade in a lame duck is
premised on senators and House
members being free and liberated
from the tethers of the American
people," Johanns explained.
"That’s extraordinary, and it’s
deeply troubling.” The same fears
animate conservative bloggers
like John Fund of the Wall Street
Journal and Marc Theissen of the
Washington Post, who have
fulminated against the Democrats'
sneaky, illegitimate, and
dangerous plans to use the back
door of a lame-duck session to
achieve goals they could not gain
in the regular process.
But hold on: Are any of these
criticisms accurate? Would a lame
-duck session free up lawmakers
to vote in ways they would not
otherwise? Would President
Obama find it easier to bribe
losing lawmakers with jobs in his
administration, as conservative
bloggers have intimated, in order
to secure votes on issues like card
-check and cap-and-trade? More
broadly, would such a session be
unprecedented, or at least highly
unusual, and utterly illegitimate if
done after voters have spoken and
taken a different turn from the
status quo?
Actually, it turns out these
concerns are almost completely
unfounded. If lame-duck sessions
freed up lawmakers to vote
differently than they otherwise
would have, for instance, we
would see radically different
behavior from legislators after
they announce their retirements
(since from that point on, they are
freed from those pesky "tethers").
In fact, there are no discernable
differences in voting patterns for
members of Congress after they
announce they are leaving. And it
would be very difficult for Obama
to bribe legislators with executive
branch appointments: Since the
overwhelming mass of attractive
and available executive posts are
Senate confirmable, and since
Republicans even now can
filibuster and block confirmations,
that concern is a real
conspiratorial stretch.
On the broader point about lame
duck sessions, here is the reality:
Lame duck sessions are
commonplace, with 17 having
been held from 1940 through
2008—or one after every two
elections. To be sure, some were
pro forma and accomplished little;
others were targeted on a single
issue or action. But a number
were quite productive—and that
includes lame duck sessions after
the 1974 and 1982 elections,
before swollen groups of
Democrats were sworn in to
compete with Republican
presidents Gerald Ford and
Ronald Reagan, and after the
1994 elections, before
Republicans took their first
majority in the House in 40 years
and simultaneously took back the
Senate.
The lame-duck session of the
Ninety-Third Congress, after the
Watergate election, approved the
nomination of Nelson Rockefeller
to be vice president, gave the
president broad trade-negotiating
authority, passed a continuing
resolution to substitute for several
appropriations bills that had not
passed, established federal energy
research and development policy,
and enacted, over the vetoes of
President Ford, a vocational
rehabilitation bill and
amendments to the Freedom of
Information Act. The lame duck
after the 1982 election was
acrimonious and partisan, but
Congress managed to pass a
number of delayed appropriations
bills, an increase in the gasoline
tax, and a pay raise for itself. The
post-1994 election lame duck was
focused on one thing, passage of a
major trade bill to implement the
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT), done on a
bipartisan basis. And we can add
the lame-duck session after the
1998 elections, when House
Republicans reconvened to
impeach President Clinton.
The looming lame-duck session
will be among the most
interesting of the 17 since 1940. It
is remotely possible that an
energy bill could limp across the
lame-duck finish line, but the
odds of it including any serious
carbon cap are slim to none. The
same goes for a tough version of
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card-check or any grandiose big
government spending plans. The
START treaty, despite the
endorsements of luminaries like
George Shultz and Henry
Kissinger, and the strong support
of Richard Lugar, remains captive
to the noisy opposition of the
bedrock right; if the 67 votes are
there for it, it will be because
Democrats and Republicans
struck a deal that brought broad,
bipartisan support. Like the
majority of previous lame ducks,
spending bills will be high on the
agenda, but even higher will be
the Bush tax cuts—without any
action in the session, they will all
expire before the new Congress
convenes, including cuts for rich
and non-rich alike, while also
returning the estate tax to its
draconian pre-2001 levels, a $1
million exemption with a 55
percent top rate. This is where to
look for fireworks: The battle
over the tax cuts could provide the
most fascinating example of high-
stakes endgame negotiations in
memory. The rest of the lame
duck? Not revolutionary, not
conspiratorial, not anti-
democratic—just more of the
same, like its many predecessors.
Norman Ornstein is a fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute
and the author, in 2006, of The
Broken Branch: How Congress Is
Failing America and How to Get
It Back on Track, with Thomas E.
Mann.
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continued from page 43
character is accurate, some of the
show's details are made
up—including Nucky's
complicated relationship with his
protege, Jimmy Darmody,
(Michael Pitt), a shell-shocked
World War I veteran looking to
change his fortunes, and Nucky's
affection for an abused, pregnant
housewife named Margaret
Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald).
But for all the ginned-up
melodrama—including a
climactic killing-two-birds-with-
one-stone manuever by Nucky
that seems somewhat half-assed
for such an otherwise sharp and
forward-thinking character—the
pilot has an almost overpowering
sense of physical reality. The
buildings don't look new unless
they're supposed to. The clothes
look as if people were wearing
them for a long time before the
cameras started rolling. The
blood, the sweat, the muzzle
flashes and the cumulus clouds of
cigarette and cigar smoke all
testify that "Boardwalk Empire"
isn't interested in presenting life
as it should have been, but life as
it probably was.
Tempted as I am to call this a
gangster tale, the distribution of
plot doesn't quite bear that
description out. Winter and
Scorsese devote a fair chunk of
screen time to the burgeoning
alliance between Nucky and two
prominent gangsters from
Chicago, 1919 Chicago White
Socks fixer Arnold Rothstein ( A
Serious Man's Michael Stuhlbarg)
and "Lucky" Luciano (Vincent
Piazza). The filmmakers contrast
the difference between Rothstein
and Luciano's bullheaded, upfront
machismo and Nucky's more
reticent approach. (Buscemi is
terrific here, in a way that may
sneak up on viewers. His
unthreatening demeanor and hints
of tenderness hide a tough
interior; we get the sense that
Nucky is used to being
underestimated and has spent
much of his adult life turning that
quality to his advantage.)
But at least half of the pilot
episode, maybe more, is less
interested in gangster schemes
than in capturing the temper of the
times. In 1919 the United States
was reeling from its role in World
War I—The War to End All
Wars, or so participants were
told—and the sense of psychic
dislocation that pervades this
opening hour evokes American
films of the post-Vietnam era.
Jimmy Darmody's transformation
from working stiff ex-soldier to
aspiring gangster initially struck
me as a bit arbitrary; Pitt captures
the wounded warmth of this
character so astutely—particularly
in the reaction shots of Darmody
interacting with his wife and
son—that I wondered if some
crucial piece of information ended
up on the cutting-room floor.
Outwardly he doesn't seem like a
ruthless triggerman, even when
he's at his most aggrieved and
distressed—just a man who was
forced to do a lot of killing and is
now struggling to make sense of
it.
But there's a big difference
between movie psychology and
the real thing. "Boardwalk" is
more attuned to the latter, and its
treatment of Jimmy might be the
best example of this. Jimmy, a
former Princeton student,
repeatedly says that life back
home makes no sense to him, that
it's boring and weird, and that his
combat experience utterly
destroyed any sense of connection
between morality and personal
action. The World War I combat
experience is now so remote to
America's collective
experience—there are only a
handful of veterans left—that we
don't have any reference point for
the kind of wholesale slaughter
that men like Darmody
experienced. It was the first
mechanized war, and the men that
fought it were spent weeks in
muddy, disease-ridden trenches,
often surrounded by corpses,
emerging just long enough to risk
their lives in an attack on soldiers
who were every bit as
dehumanized and miserable. Pitt's
face captures the strain of trying
to make sense of such an
experience, at a time when almost
nobody gave the psychological
well-being of soldiers a second
thought. (The moment where a
baby photographer tells Darmody
how envious he is of Darmody's
experience based on having read
"accounts of derring-do" in
newspapers is more disturbing
than any of the gangland violence
in the pilot.) This is a country
that's been through great trauma
and is starting to question whether
widely-accepted mores are really
imposed for the average working
person's benefit or for the benefit
of powerful people and
institutions that shackle them in
ways they can't even see.
Darmody is throwing off the
chains and rejecting his old self.
His logic, however nihilistic, may
be more defensible than that of
the more experienced gangsters in
his midst: it's something like, "I
spent a long time killing for no
good reason, and I got to be very
good at it. At least this time
maybe I'll make a little money at
it."
Scorsese's direction is
economical throughout, giving
viewers just enough information
to establish a plot point or a
smidgen of character psychology,
then jumping to another place,
another character. The first time I
watched the 70-minute pilot (on a
DVD screener) I looked at the
time clock on my DVD player at
what I assumed was nearly the
end, and was stunned to realize
that we were only 36 minutes in.
The filmmaker is working in
45
hyper-accelerated expository
mode here—the mode he first
began investigating in After
Hours, perfected in GoodFellas,
and cranked up to another
exhausting level in the first hour
of The Departed. The
combination of dense storytelling,
period detail, pitch-black humor
and cynicism about human nature
most vividly recalls Gangs of
New York, a compromised epic
that has many brilliant passages,
but was seriously harmed by
miscasting in central roles
(Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron
Diaz) and extensive studio
interference. Many moments in
the Boardwalk pilot evoke
Gangs—especially the details
about the collusion of corrupt
public officials and
gangsters—and throughout, the
tough, funny, "This is how the
world works" tone often suggests
an unofficial re-do of that film.
Although the setting is almost 70
years removed, Scorsese is
covering some of the same pet
subjects and themes here, and the
result feels relaxed and exact. He's
saying everything he wanted to
say in Gangs in the "Boardwalk"
pilot, with more precision and
force, even though technically it's
not him who's saying it.
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Michael Logan (TVGuide.com: weightiest, most intimate and wants to fill her time and not homeless.
Breaking News) difficult thing she has ever had to think about the cancer. This is too Bell: We've hired a new actress
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:07:00 PM wrestle with and to have to share heavy of a thing to deal with, even named Kristolyn Lloyd, who will
it with Brooke is torture. This is a for the formidable Stephanie play a homeless character named
Susan Flannery story about a highly functioning Forrester. As she and Brooke Dayzee in a story that is a
The Bold and the Beautiful is woman that will delve deeply into become partners in crime, we'll be continuation of one of our great
famous for its gutsy storylines, issues of self-worth and denial. going on a lot of wild locations stories from 1991 when Stephanie
and this one's a jaw-dropper. In But it's not going to be morbid or shoots. had her stroke and was living on
the cliffhanger of the September d e p r e s s i n g . S t e p h a n i e i s TV Guide Magazine: How does the streets. It's a story my father
2 4 e p i s o d e , c o n t r o l - f r e a k determined to party right into her the situation affect Brooke? How [the late B&B creator Bill Bell]
matriarch Stephanie Forrester — grave. It'll be a hell of a lot of fun does she not tell the family? was extremely proud of, and we're
played by four-time Emmy to watch. Bell: Brooke keeping this secret going to be weaving it into this
winner Susan Flannery— will TV Guide Magazine: How is it will be something to watch unto cancer plot.
find out that she has stage 4 lung that Brooke, of all people, is the itself. She's vowed to tell Ridge TV Guide Magazine: You know
cancer. Stephanie will stubbornly only one in the loop? everything, yet that would go this news will create mass panic
refuse treatment and decide to Bell: Stephanie collapses during against a dying woman's wish. among the Susan Flannery
keep the dire news from her a confrontation with Brooke and She's in a real pickle and doesn't groupies. She even hinted at
family, choosing instead to spend is rushed to the hospital, so know whom to honor or what to retirement in an interview a
her final months checking off B r o o k e i s t h e r e w h e n t h e it's not like I'm 50 or 60 anymore. do. She urges Stephanie to go couple of years. Is she leaving the
items on her bucket list: She'll diagnosis is given — and that How many years am I really public with this. But Stephanie show? [ Flannery declined to be
throw herself a birthday party leaves Stephanie feeling like she fighting for?" She's asking a lot of needs time to do that, so she interviewed about the new
complete with a Silly Slide, ride can't even have cancer in peace. h a r d q u e s t i o n s a s s h e demands that Brooke keep her storyline.]
the rollicking roller coaster at the This will send these characters to contemplates her future, and you trap shut. Despite their animosity, Bell: Susan is as unpredictable as
Santa Monica pier... that sort of a place they've never been before. have to wonder if it's her pride or this has always been a symbiotic her performances. One never
t h i n g . O n l y S t e p h a n i e ' s Stephanie feels Brooke should be her stubbornness that's keeping relationship. After 23 years of knows. We like to think that
archenemy Brooke ( Katherine rejoicing that her nemesis and her from telling her family. Don't fighting and bickering, they've things are going to last forever but
Kelly Lang) will be privy to the archrival may be out for the forget, this is the same woman become one of daytime's all-time nothing does. She's done very
d i a g n o s i s — a n d t h a t ' s b y count. Instead, this will shine new w h o k e p t A n g e l a [ h e r supercouples and finding new, well on The Bold and the
accident. TV Guide Magazine light on their relationship. Brooke microcephalic daughter] a secret fertile ground for them to explore Beautiful and before that on Days
talked with B&B exec producer- becomes a confidant and a from Eric so he could do his work is exciting. of Our Lives, and has had a long
head writer Brad Bell about this motivator to Stephanie. and not be troubled. She really TV Guide Magazine: How long and successful career in
startling twist. And of course we TV Guide Magazine: Why won't believes that her role in life is to does this story play out? Hollywood. We certainly hope it
hit him with the billion-dollar Stephanie agree to be treated? It's not distract from what's really Bell: There will be no quick continues and we're all hoping
question — is Susan Flannery so extreme. important — the family business fixes. Slowly more characters will Stephanie survives this...
exiting the show? Bell: This news comes at a time and the welfare of the children be brought into the situation and it TV Guide Magazine: Are you
TV Guide Magazine: This is as w h e n h e r c h i l d r e n a n d and grandchildren. She'd rather w i l l e v e n t u a l l y b e c o m e a suggesting there's a possibility she
horrible a prognosis as a writer grandchildren no longer need her, die than be the center of attention. Forrester family story. This will won't?
could slap on a character. And for when she is no longer critical at TV Guide Magazine: Stephanie's be front and center and the heart Bell: There is a possibility that
Stephanie to refuse treatment the company, and she's asking never been a madcap kinda gal so and soul of the show, certainly she won't.
makes it even harsher and scarier. herself, "How valuable am I what's with the goofy bucket list? through to the end of the year and TV Guide Magazine: This is all
What's your thinking here? anymore? Am I an asset or a Bell: It's all about denial. In beyond. pretty ballsy, sir.
Bell: I wanted to create the detriment? And if someone up creating her bucket list, Stephanie TV Guide Magazine: I'm told Bell: I know. [ Laughs] Just
biggest mountain possible for there is calling my number, is really hiding from what should there''s a second level to this story
Stephanie to overcome. It's the maybe it's time for me to go — be done and needs to be done. She — one that somehow involves the BOLD page 49
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Annie Parisse
Cheers to Annie Parisse for
bringing some much-needed sex
appeal to Rubicon.
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AMC's chilly conspiracy serial
cast the smoldering actress as
Andy, a part-time painter who
takes her justifiably paranoid
neighbor, intelligence anyalyst
Will Travers ( James Badge
Dale), into her apartment — and
her bed. There's something off
about Andy, who was turned on
by Will's shiftiness and ended the
episode with this ominous
between-the-sheets whisper: "I
like that you've got a gun." Ruh-
roh!
Parisse recently costarred with
Badge Dale on another high-
quality production, HBO's The
Pacific(she played Jon Seda's
wife) and guested on Showtime's
grade-A rookie The Big C as John
Benjamin Hickey's hippie-dippy
girlfriend. Previously, she was
best known for her ill-fated stint
as ludicrously named ADA
Alexandria Borgia on NBC's Law
& Order. Clearly, broadcast
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Hal Spivack (FanHouse Main) according to multiple reports. The the Buffalo Sabres and the New
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:37:00 PM 34-year-old Drury was taking part York Islanders, while also
in a scrimmage when he missing two home games against
Filed under: Rangers, NHL reportedly broke his left index the Toronto Maple Leafs and
Injuries New York Rangers finger. Colorado Avalanche.
captain Chris Drury broke a finger If Drury is to miss the full four Drury is a former member of
during a Monday morning skate weeks, he will not play in the first missing two road games against both the Buffalo Sabres and
a n d w i l l m i s s f o u r w e e k s , four games of the regular season - Colorado Avalanche.
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Metal Gear
infiltrates Monster
Hunter Portable 3rd
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:00:00 PM

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

featured nonsensical Monster
Hunter content, so it should come
as no surprise that Monster
Hunter Portable 3rd returns the
'Real Housewives' News: A favor. Well, we say that, but
Replacement for Bethenny, Possible 'Price is Right' Opens 39th
seeing The Boss in Monster
Hunter is a shock no matter how
Miami Franchise and More prepared we thought we were.
Jean Bentley (TV Squad) casting was confirmed, told Us.
According to the information
Season with a New Game, The PSP port of Monster Hunter
3 will include armor to make your
male or female character look like
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:30:00 AM
Vulture could dig up about
Filed under: TV News Since Barshop, she's a single mother of
New Announcer, New Host Snake or The Boss, respectively,
along with Metal Gear-inspired
Bethenny Frankel is officially out two year-old twin girls who owns Bob Sassone (TV Squad) different thing to see it in the costumes for your Felyne
as a regular on Bravo's'The Real a spa with locations in New York Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:10:00 AM 'Price is Right' setting. My first companions -- who can now hide
Housewives of New York City,' and Palm Beach, Fl. called reaction when Drew came out in cardboard boxes (just like our
we can now speculate on who's Completely Bare. She's been Filed under: Features'The Price is from behind the door at the start cats). The cognitive dissonance is
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What to do when your cruise line shuts Safety Crusader Edward
down
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Submitted at 9/20/2010 6:31:09 AM
What to do when your cruise line
shuts down Certain travel
purchases are more complex and
certainly more expensive than
others, and booking a cruise can
give anyone buyer’s remorse.
Particularly because sometimes
the worst happens, as when
Seattle-based Cruise West
suddenly shut down without
notice this month.
After more than a week of the
company providing virtually no
updates and no media interviews,
on Friday visitors to the Cruise
West site were told in blunt terms
that all operations were ceasing as
of Saturday the 18th. Only the
line’s Danube Cruise, scheduled
to depart on Wednesday, Sept. 22,
will operate, and all other
itineraries are cancelled.
The company’s notification
advises consumers who booked
via credit card to file claims, as
should those who purchased third-
party travel insurance. If you paid
by cash, claim information is
posted on the site’s homepage. In
addition, customers who booked
Galapagos sailings will find
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Swartz
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the Federal Maritime
Commission’s site for detailed
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As we noted recently, purchasing
a cruise is much more of a caveat
emptor experience than buying
most other travel products.
Because of the foreign ownership
of many cruise lines, even the
Federal Maritime Commission
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Some cruise lines provide
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Unfortunately in the case of
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others who book cruises with
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consider travel insurance, and
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• Remember, however, it’s always
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West site makes clear); if you
purchase insurance through a
cruise line or tour operator that
goes bankrupt, your coverage may
be void as well.• What’s more,
always make sure the specific line
you are booking is covered under
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Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:43:13 AM
Safety Crusader Edward Swartz
Edward Swartz, a charismatic
product-safety advocate and
personal-injury attorney who was
known for his campaigns against
unsafe children’s toys, died earlier
this month at the age of 76.
Consumer Product Safety
Swartz garnered the nickname
Commission in the 1970s, Swartz
“Nader of the Nursery,” after
was still compelled to continue
safety crusader Ralph Nader.
his toy safety campaign. Over the
Nader himself commended
years he was critical of the
Swartz for pioneering the idea of
CPSC’s limited effectiveness
toy safety back in the 1970s. For
when it came to getting toys off
its part, the toy industry over the
the market that he deemed
years has accused Swartz of being
dangerous.
nothing more than a money-
The 2009 list of 10 worst toys
hungry lawyer. Many consumer
included a Spy Gear Viper Blaster
advocates, however, herald
with a potential for injuring eyes,
Swartz as a true safety crusader.
and the “Curious Baby Curious
Read more and comment
George Counting–My First Book
Each year, at the height of the
of Numbers” because it was a
holiday gift-buying season,
choking hazard. WATCH will
Swartz published a list of the 10
again publish its list this coming
worst toys through his
November. It’s good to know that
organization World Against Toys
the legacy of Edward Swartz will
Causing Harm (WATCH). Over
continue to live on.
the years he has also penned a
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Sandisk Sansa Fuze 8GB Media Player With UFL, Doug Williams
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:00:08 AM
Eager to Add Management
Sansa Fuze’s gifts: the 8GB hard
drive, the 1.9” color screen, the
easy file-transfer? Those gifts
Fuze’s 1.9” color screen
• FM radio with 40 preset stations
• Built-in voice recorder
It’s The Kids Who Suffer to Pioneering Resume
need to be nurtured in a
Will you keep your voice down, supportive environment, not left
• Share your photos wherever
you go
p l e a s e ? E v e r y b o d y i n t h e to rot in a big tin box next to a • 0.3” thin device easily fits in David Steele (FanHouse Main)
restaurant is staring. decommissioned lead smelter. your pocket Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:18:00 PM
Let’s be adults about this, Gary. So yes, Steve and I want Sansa • micro SDHC slot for additional
You’re living in an abandoned Fuze to come live with us full- content expansion Filed under: Redskins, UFL
boxcar. Your only source of time. You can still listen to and • Music subscription ready NORFOLK, Va. -- As his
income is underground hacksaw- watch its multimedia files every • Dimensions (HxWxD): weekend in his new pro football
fighting. You’re addicted to other weekend. But living with us 3.1×1.9×0.3 in. home drew to an end -- a charity
huffing Sharpies. Meanwhile, will give Sansa Fuze the firm golf tournament behind him and
Steve and I just bought a new grounding it needs to grow into Additional Photos: the Houston Texans- Washington
three-bedroom house in a good the multimedia player we know it • Left Side Redskins game in front -- Doug
school district. His repossession can be. Only a pair of mature, • Right Side Williams was greeting fans in the
company is doing great. And I rational, sane adults like Steve • Package Contents lobby of a downtown hotel. Fans
just marked five years teaching and I can raise Sansa Fuze the thanking him for his play for their
English F o r O u r F u t u r e right way. And only a pair of fully System Requirements: favorite team and wishing him
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contacts. Now which situation galactic dictatorship. Sansa Fuze mode) still has for the team he led to a 2011, but Williams -- named
sounds like a better environment is coming with me, Gary. But I • Windows Media Player® 10 or Super Bowl victory in 1988. But general manager in June -- was
for our Sansa Fuze to grow up in? can offer you this free personality 11 the Norfolk-area residents, living busy with the task not only of
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54 Products/ Featured/
Daily Dispatch: Two-step Google
authentication; Intel charges extra to
unlock CPU capabilities
Dirk Klingner (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:45:40 AM
Daily Dispatch: Two-step Google
authentication; Intel charges extra
to unlock CPU capabilities
In today's Digital Dispatch:
Intel wants to charge $50 to
unlock stuff your CPU can
already do( engadget)
...Intel websites confirm -- that
lets you download software to
unlock extra threads and cache on
the new Pentium G6951
processor.
Facebook Expands Instant
Personalization with Rotten
Tomatoes( ReadWriteWeb)
...The feature brings users' social
graph and likes on Facebook to
other sites, such as Pandora and
Yelp. Beginning today, those
same features will come to movie
rating and review site, Rotten
Tomatoes.
Google Brings Two-Step
Authentication to Google Apps(
Mashable)
...The system works in the
following way: the user types in
their login name and password,
and then s/he has to type in an
additional code generated by a
mobile application (similar to
generating code with a token,
often seen in Internet banking
applications).
Google To Distribute Mobile
Devices To Businesses For
Checkins, Ratings And More(
TechCrunch)
...These devices will allow
customers to check-in and rate the
businesses and perhaps even
purchase items via Google
Checkout. Eight million of the
devices will be distributed, says
the source.
Search Gmail & Docs with
Google Mobile App on
BlackBerry( Google Mobile Blog)
...Today we’re pleased to
announce it can also search the
cloud to find items in your Gmail,
Google Contacts, and Google
Docs.
What to do when body parts fall
off( CNN)
...Emergency room physicians say
people often don't know what to
do with a body part that's become
derailed, whether it's a toe, finger,
tooth or an eye that's popped out
of its socket. Here's some advice...
Flying pigeon beats broadband to
deliver movie file( BBC)
A carrier pigeon has flown a
computer memory card between
two counties quicker than a rural
computer could upload a five
minute video to the web.
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's
13,000 Satellites Hovering Above
Our Planet( urlesque)
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How a Facebook "phone"
can be easier than iPhone
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 3:55:31 PM
Following up on today's previous
piece.
There's an assumption built into
every Internet debate that
anything that comes from Apple
must be easier than anything that
iPhone.
comes from anyone else. It's not
I'm not saying choice is bad, it's
true, of course. Ease-of-use isn't
not! I wouldn't use a phone that
always a mystical or magical
didn't offer lots of choices. But
thing, sometimes it's
there are plenty of people who
mathematical.
can't do the setup. They just can't
Ease-of-use is inversely
wrap their minds around how
proportional to the number of
these things work. (And if you
choices.
think they're all old, think again.
Fewer choices ==> easier to use.
It's amazing to me how little at
No, not always (anticipating that
least some of today's college
someone would say that). If you're
students know about how
really stupid at design, you can
computers work. Yes, I took the
have fewer choices and still not be
time to actually find out.)
eaiser to use. Your classic lose-
Ideally, to configure a Facebook
lose.
phone, you would enter your
Take email for example. The
username and password. All the
iPhone email app has to allow all
other configuration data would be
kinds of options that a Facebook
pre-determined.
device wouldn't have to, because I
PS: I put "phone" in quotes
can use an iPhone with any email
because that's how people are
server I want to. And any number
referring to these devices. It's
of them. This is great for people
anachronistic. Looking back from
who understand how email works,
the future we'll wonder why
but a lot of people don't.
people thought of these devices as
It gets even more complex if you phones. They are very little like
want to synch contacts. So their non-mobile counterparts.
complicated that Google had to PPS: I'm not saying this is good
put up a page explaining, in 13 or bad, it just is.
steps, how to do it if you want to
use their contact system on an
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Eyes on the road for the upcoming Pence Wins Social

2010 Distracted Driving Summit Conservatives' Straw Poll
Consumer Reports Shopping states document distracted driving other” began as a pilot in (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Mr. Pence has been a favorite
Blog (Consumer Reports) in their crash reporting. Syracuse, NY and Hartford, CT. Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:18:51 AM speaker at earlier FRC "summits"
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:29:59 AM Since last year’s event, the issue These are just a handful of the and at other gatherings on the
has received quite a bit of initiatives that have taken place By: Ralph Z. Hallow fiscal and social right since he
E y e s o n t h e r o a d f o r t h e attention. More and more states since last year, but they highlight Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana first won election to Congress.
u p c o m i n g 2 0 1 0 D i s t r a c t e d have enacted anti-texting laws, the increased effort to curb this Republican edged ahead of Both Mr. Huckabee and Mr.
Driving Summit and texting is now banned in 30 dangerous behavior. television talk show host and Pence delivered well-received
The second-annual Department states, plus the District of The upcoming event will reflect former Arkansas Gov. Mike speeches at the conference.
of Transportation’s Distracted Columbia. Texting was also on the past year, reviewing what Huckabee for first place in the Mr. Pence won 170 votes for 24
Driving Summit is set to take banned for commerical truckers has been done in legislation, Family Research Council's Values percent of the total, barely edging
place on Tuesday, September and bus drivers. regulation, technology, and Voters Summit 2012 presidential out Mr. Huckabee, who took 159
21st. Consumer Reports staff will Plus, a group called FocusDriven research. It will also look at straw poll Saturday. votes for 22 percent.
b e i n a t t e n d a n c e a t t h e was formed to bring together media, and how communication Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Mr. Romney was third with 93
Washington, D.C., event to report, victims of distracted driving can be an effective way to reach placed sixth in the poll at the votes for 13 percent, and former
learn, and discuss the issue of accidents to increase public more drivers, how distracted largest gathering of social and House Speaker Newt Gingrich
distracted driving and see what awareness about the issue (similar driving can be an occupational religious conservatives in the had 72 votes for 10 percent.
challenges and opportunities are to the group MADD for victims of hazard, and how we confront the country. Mrs. Palin didn't address the two-
coming in the future. drunk driving accidents). Oprah challenges moving forward. O f t h e e s t i m a t e d 2 , 0 0 0 day conference at the Omni
According to new 2009 statistics W i n f r e y a l s o j o i n e d t h e Check back on this blog to see conference attendees, 723 of them Shoreham Hotel in Washington
f r o m t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f movement to get the word out and our full coverage from the 2010 cast ballots. In 2007, the last time and attracted only 51 votes,
Transportation, 5,474 people died asked people to take a pledge on Distracted Driving Summit.— people were permitted to vote totaling 7 percent, in front of
as a result of distracted driving her web site that they would make Liza Barth Subscribe now! online as well as in person, former former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick
and 448,000 were injured. That their cars a “No Phone Zone.” S u b s c r i b e t o Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Santorum, who won only seven
represents 16 percent of the total Currently there are over 396,000 ConsumerReports.org for expert won overall, but Mr. Huckabee votes, for 1 percentage point.
fatalities, which is the same people who have submitted their Ratings, buying advice and won among those voting in Other well-known Republicans
percentage as 2008. However, pledge. reliability on hundreds of person. took 10 percent or less of the vote.
Secretary Ray LaHood cautions The first crackdown campaign products. Update your feed FRC President Tony Perkins said © C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 0 T h e
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Sources: Denver Nuggets listening to offers for Carmelo Anthony

Marc Stein and Chad Ford coming season, wants out. place -- and trying to sell him on Yet sources say that Denver, after appearance earlier this week with
(ESPN.com) ESPN The Magazine's Ric the team's plans for the future at watching LeBron James and Chris comedian George Lopez, when
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:34:46 AM Bucher reported Aug. 16 that it his introductory press conference. Bosh devastate Cleveland and asked where he was expecting to
was "a matter of when, not if, The Nuggets, during Ujiri's first Toronto, respectively, by bolting play this season, Anthony said:
Updated: September 20, 2010, Anthony and the Nuggets will go two weeks in the office, to Miami in July, is determined to "I'm a Nugget. I'm a Nugget,
9:34 AM ET By Marc Stein and their separate ways," while consistently told teams calling to avoid the same fate with Anthony man."
Chad Ford CBSSports.com quoted "multiple register trade interest in Anthony and will ultimately work with him Yet Anthony has also sidestepped
ESPN.com sources" last week as saying that that they weren't ready to discuss on a trade before the February such questions in other recent
The Denver Nuggets' resistance the 26-year-old "has not wavered the subject. trading deadline if the alternative interviews, contributing to the
to trading star forward Carmelo in his desire to be dealt" and that But the Nuggets, sources said, is potentially losing him outright mounting tension in Denver all
A n t h o n y i s f a d i n g a w a y , the New Jersey Nets are making have relaxed that stance and are in free agency. summer while the Nuggets' three-
a c c o r d i n g t o s o u r c e s w i t h the hardest active pitch for starting to explore how much they Ujiri, in particular, just lived year extension offer worth $65
knowledge of Denver's thinking. Anthony. might be able to get in return for through the Bosh saga as a million remains unsigned. Around
T h e N u g g e t s s t i l l a r e n ' t Although Anthony has not made the high-scoring small forward. member of Toronto's front office the time of the draft in June,
aggressively shopping Anthony any such declarations publicly, it To agree to a deal, Denver would before taking the Nuggets' job. Nuggets officials were quietly
and haven't withdrawn their appears that Nuggets management expect at least one top-flight No clear frontrunner has yet optimistic that Anthony was about
longstanding offer of a contract is growing increasingly resigned young player it can market along emerged in the Anthony to sign.
extension, but numerous sources to the fact that they won't be able with salary-cap relief and multiple sweepstakes, despite Anthony's Marc Stein and Chad Ford are
told ESPN.com that Denver to change their franchise player's future first-round picks. presumed desire to play for the senior NBA writers for
officials have in recent days let mind. Trading Anthony, however, is not big-market New York Knicks or ESPN.com.
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they're going to pull the trigger. " 2003-04 and spoke optimistically Minnesota sent him to Boston in Sept. 27, with training camp
Reports have persisted for weeks about arranging a face-to-face the summer of 2007 -- which scheduled to open the following
that Anthony, who can become a meeting with Anthony -- which gives Anthony some measure of day.
free agent at the end of the sources say has not yet taken input into his trade destination. During a TBS television
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m a d e t h e m o s t o f h i s of Sunday's game. "We've got to
starts. The move comes as Fox
faces uncertainty himself as he Michael Vick of Philadelphia
opportunities Sunday. We'll see be able to make those in game works in the final year of his
how it goes this week." situations. Talking to the team
Moore has had two miserable today, we've got to spark our
contract.
"Somehow or another we have to
Eagles says he's OK being
weeks, a steep fall from his strong offense, in particular the passing
4-1 finish as a starter last season game. So we're going to start
gain some confidence in the
passing game," Fox said. "We'll
Kevin Kolb's backup
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r u s h i n g y a r d s , s a i d i n a my mindset," Vick said. "I've
SportsCenter interview that Kolb MICHAEL page 58
is the Eagles' "leader" and that he
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Tyler Colvin continued from page 57

been working hard to be reliable that even if Vick isn't starting,

says he's doing OK after a broken bat whenever I'm needed. That's the
way it is, and the way it's gonna
he'll be involved in more plays
than last year.
be throughout the season." "We've got more plays for him
punctured his chest Vick also said after Sunday's
game that Kolb was the Eagles'
than we did a year ago, so he'll be
on the field," Reid said. "It isn't
ESPNChicago.com Castillo hit a ball to left field. "I feel really bad about it," rightful starter. going to be five or six plays this
(ESPN.com) Colvin watched the ball, and he Castillo said. "It wasn't on Kolb told the Philadelphia year."
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:27:03 PM didn't see a large chunk of the purpose, but he's my teammate. I Inquirer on Monday that he needs Vick said he hopes to get an
shattered bat heading toward him. hope he's getting better." to show the Eagles and their fans opportunity to be a team's top
Updated: September 20, 2010, The bat punctured the upper left Castillo was using a maple bat, that he belongs as the top quarterback next season.
2:27 PM ET side of his chest. The team said which usually breaks into larger quarterback on the team. "Hopefully, somebody will give
Chicago Cubs outfielder Tyler there was minimal external pieces when it shatters. Ash bats "I appreciate [Vick's support], but me that opportunity [next year]
Colvin reassured fans Monday bleeding, and he was being treated o f t e n s p l i n t e r i n t o s m a l l I got to prove it, too," Kolb said. and if they give me that
that he's doing OK a day after a with a chest tube to prevent a f r a g m e n t s . "That's the competitive nature of opportunity, they'll get 110
scary incident in which his chest collapsed lung. "These bats, I'm amazed it doesn't everybody. ... Andy's loyal to percent," he said.
was punctured by a piece of a The 25-year-old rookie will miss happen more," Cubs manager everybody and he's a trustworthy Information from The Associated
broken bat. the remainder of the season. He Mike Quade said. "We have seen guy. He does what's right for the Press was used in this report.
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Sony files to dismiss 'Other OS' class
action lawsuit
James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:00:00 PM
SCEA has filed a motion to
dismiss a class action brought
against the company for its
removal of the PS3's "Other OS"
feature, which allowed users to
install Linux on the system. Sony
argues that the lawsuit, a
consolidation of seven similar
suits filed last spring, fails to
present evidence that the company
overtly advertised Other OS in its
marketing campaigns or on PS3
packaging.
Sony's filing also claims that the
PS3 warranty, license agreement
and the PlayStation Network
Terms of Service "specifically
provide PS3 purchasers with a
license, not an ownership interest,
in the software and in the use of
the PSN, and provide that SCEA
has the right to disable or alter
software features or terminate or
limit access to the PSN, including
by issuing firmware updates,"
according to court documents
obtained by IGN. (Other OS was
removed with a firmware update;
and users who decline any update
are barred from PSN.)
Additionally, Sony has requested
that the "class" allegations be
stricken from the suit because the
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Edwin and Enoch: El Shaddai's official jeans
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:30:00 PM
Are you over your initial shock
about Ignition's El Shaddai, the
abstract, psychedelic third-person
action game based on the Bible's
Book of Enoch? Now that you've
assimilated that into your
worldview, prepare to have your
mind blown once again: this Bible
-themed game includes co-
marketing with jeans.
An Ignition rep explained to us
that Lucifel (a certain fallen angel
you may have heard of, who goes
on to a measure of infamy after
the game's time) is capable of
traveling through time at will, and
enjoys the 20th century, bringing
back styles from the era into the
distant past for himself and his pal
Enoch. This includes the jeans
both wear, which are Edwin
brand. In turn, Edwin will offer
special El Shaddai styles of its
jeans in Japan, on display in glass
cases at TGS.
The rep was careful to explain
that El Shaddai wasn't conceived
as a vehicle for clothing
marketing -- we believe this,
given that one of the in-game
"models" is, you know, the devil,
which can't be one hundred
percent ideal.
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Rebooting RSS, short names for feeds Meebo Celebrates Its 5th
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 7:51:36 AM
Birthday with New Design
This is the fifth piece in the
Reboot RSS series which started
and BlackBerry App
one week ago today. The other
pieces are: Architecture of RSS,
Two ways to read RSS, Pulling it
together.
So far the two new elements of
the architecture are: 1. One-click
to subscribe. 2. A central server
run by a foundation that provides
OPML subscription lists for each
user to feed engines.
Now the third element -- short
names for feeds.
On Twitter I am known as
davewiner. Same on Facebook.
On Apple's network I am
scriptingnews, on Google's
dave.winer.
On the RSS network I have a
strange name:
http://scripting.com/rss.xml
This puts the RSS network at a
distinct disadvantage, don't you
think!
I would much rather have a name
than a URL, even though the URL
is a good thing, because it's how
the network gets its loose-coupled
-ness. It tells anyone who cares
how to find the new stuff from
me. It's stood the test of time, it
works, it scales reasonably well,
and it allows choice. The only
thing wrong with it is that it's
ugly!
Luckily we can make it pretty, as
I outlined in a previous pieces.
We will use the naming
architecture of the Internet itself,
called DNS or the Domain Name
System. Here's how it would
work.
1. If you don't already have a
domain, and most of us don't, you
can go to a registrar like GoDaddy
or Gandi and buy one. But most
people won't do that because you
will also be able to go to
providers who will sell you a sub-
domain much more cheaply if not
give it to you for free. It'b been
argued that it's too hard to get a
domain or a sub-domain, but it
doesn't have to be that way.
There's no reason it should be any
more difficult than getting a
username on Twitter or Facebook.
All you're doing is associating a
string of characters with an email
address. There's nothing hard
about that, not in 2010.
2. When you register the name, if
you already have an RSS feed you
want to be associated with that
name, as I do -- you'll just enter it
into a text area on the registrar
website and click Submit. Then
the URL will be stored as the
TXT attribute of the name and
served up to anyone who wants it
over the DNS protocol.
For example, my name would be
davewiner.com(I already own that
domain), and the associated URL
would be http://scripting.com/
rss.xml.
3. When someone decides they
want to follow me, instead of
entering the URL, they will be
able to enter davewiner.com.
That's all.
Now you could imagine a special
TLD, something like .rss, that
would be understood when you
enter a name. I could register
dave.winer.rss for a nominal
charge, and if you want to
subscribe to me, you could enter
dave.winer. The .rss part would be
assumed, just as .com is assumed
in a lot of contexts on the web.
See how this is working?
Everything in this space seems to
involve URL-shortening. This is
no exception. And this is as far as
we want to go, because now the
name is as short and as easy to
sign up for as the centralized
networks, without the
centralization penalty.
Voila!
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Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:17:31 PM
Instant messaging service Meebo
is celebrating its fifth birthday
with a slew of new updates to the
Meebo Bar, a redesigned
homepage and the launch of an
app for BlackBerry.
The company is releasing two
new features for the Meebo Bar,
which adds chat and drag-and-
drop functionality to any website
Hitting the five-year mark is
with a bar that rests at the bottom
definitely a milestone for Meebo.
of the page. The first is highlight-
We’ve been covering the
to-share text functionality, while
company for years. Now it is one
Meebo’s new embeddable buttons
of the web’s most popular
allow for drag-and-drop sharing
websites and instant messaging
of images or articles right on the
clients; the company claims its
page.
products reach 30% of U.S.
Meebo has also announced the
Internet users. We look forward
release of its BlackBerry App.
to seeing what Meebo is able to
Like its iPhone and Android
conjure up in the next five years.
counterparts, the BlackBerry app
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For more Social Media coverage:
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• Follow Mashable Social Media
between the desktop and the
on Twitter
mobile client. It also provides full
• Become a Fan on Facebook
access to a user’s chat history.
• Subscribe to the Social Media
Finally, Meebo has launched a
channel
redesign of its homepage, which
• Download our free apps for
the company says is just the first
iPhone and iPad
step towards a complete redesign.
It’s cleaner and adds a new focus
on its mobile apps.
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Colin Powell: Illegals Work on my RED Pledges to Use Social

House Media to Help Stop the
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:10:47 AM
months of the Clinton
administration. Despite his
and promotes an agenda that
people "can see, touch and Spread of AIDS by 2015
Republican standing he was once actually believe in." It's not Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Monday, 20 Sep 2010 07:10 AM considered a formidable prospect enough, he said, to call for goals Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:19:33 PM
Former Secretary of State Colin for the GOP presidential or vice- that most Americans support,
Powell says illegal immigrants do presidential nominations but such as controlled federal Today at Mashable’s Social
essential work in the U.S. and he stayed out of contention he spending and adherence to the Good Summit, Susan Smith Ellis,
has firsthand knowledge of that e n d o r s e d D e m o c r a t B a r a c k Constitution. CEO of RED, took to the stage to
because they fix his house. Obama in the 2008 presidential The former secretary of state said announce the organization’s next
M r . P o w e l l , a m o d e r a t e election. he still sees Mr. Obama as a goal: To use social media to help
Republican, urged his party In lamenting the party's rightward transformational figure, if one ensure that no children is born
Sunday to support immigration drift Sunday, he said Republicans who has lost some of his ability to with HIV/AIDS by 2015.
generally because it is "what's m u s t n o t b e c o m e a n t i - connect with people. RED has already successfully
keeping this country's lifeblood immigration and spoke in support Mr. Powell said he's not giving employed social media to get its
moving forward." of legislation that would give up on the GOP, even in the face message across. As Ellis points
In an interview with NBC's c e r t a i n c h i l d r e n o f i l l e g a l of a rightward drift, and says it out, the anti-AIDS organization In case you haven’t seen it, we’re
"Meet the Press," he said a path to immigrants a way to become might actually help Mr. Obama if doesn’t exactly have a high embedding the documentary
legal status should be offered to citizens if they pursue a college Republicans win the House in marketing budget, so it “requires a below. Check it out and keep an
illegal immigrants because they education or military service. November and gain responsibility high level of engagement” to raise eye on RED to see what efforts
"are doing things we need done in Immigration, he said, offers the for driving policy, not just awareness. To do so, they strive to are on the horizon when it comes
this country." U.S. a chance to maintain a opposing Democrats. humanize the cause by telling to meeting its next goal.
He added: "They're all over my youthful population in contrast © Copyright 2010 The Associated stories. “Social media will be the RED, in partnership with
house, doing things whenever I with the aging of Europe and Press. All rights reserved. This engine of our success,” she says. Mashable, also announced the
call for repairs, and I'm sure Japan. material may not be published, The most recent effort was The first annual Social Good Day,
you've seen them at your house. Mr. Powell also said "fringe" broadcast, rewritten or Lazarus Effect, an HBO which takes place on September
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Obama Goes to Church After
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Submitted at 9/20/2010 5:17:14 AM
On Friday, former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee said in an
exclusive Newsmax interview that
President Obama could deal with
doubts about his faith by “leading
the example of attending
worship.”
The former Arkansas governor
and presidential candidate also
slammed President Obama, saying
he has been treating Muslims
better than Jews and
Christians.[See story and video:
Huckabee: Obama Treats
Muslims Better Than Jew,
Christians.]
Huckabee's complaint apparently
shook up the White House over
the weekend.
On Sunday, Obama attended
services at St. John’s Episcopal
Church in Washington, just the
third time he has worshipped in
public since he took office.
Politico.com columnist Ben
Smith noted the connection,
suggesting that the Newsmax
story motivated Obama's sudden
interest in church.
Smith quoted from Huckabee’s
Newsmax interview and provided
TOP-TEN
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a link to a website that excerpted
a key portion of the interview.
Smith wrote on Sunday: “Since
arriving in Washington as
president, Obama — who was a
member of Trinity United Church
of Christ in Chicago — has
largely chosen not to attend public
church services because of the
possible disruptions his presence,
and the increased security, would
cause a congregation.
“At the Values Voter Summit on
Saturday, Mike Huckabee was
quoted as saying that Obama
could quell rumors about his faith
by ‘leading the example of
attending worship’ and mentioned
that Obama once talked of finding
a home church in Washington. ‘I
hope he’s still mapping that out,’
Huckabee said.”
In his Newsmax interview,
Huckabee was asked about a
recent poll showing that a fifth of
Americans are not sure that
Obama is actually a Christian.
Huckabee said: “Well, it would
be helpful if he would participate
in things like the National Day of
Prayer that all the other Presidents
have participated in.
"He certainly was downtown to
host a Ramadan dinner.
“But you know, I'm not going to
question his faith or whether he's
a Christian or not, but it certainly
would be helpful if he would
show a little love to the people
who are unapologetically
Christian, and I think there's some
things [like] being part of the
National Day of Prayer that would
go a long way toward that, and
leading the example of attending
worship.
“He said one of his highest
priorities when he got to
Washington would be to find a
church. I hope he's still mapping
that out.”
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Submitted at 9/20/2010 5:47:51 AM
Monday, 20 Sep 2010 10:47 AM
By: Dan Weil
While the U.S. stock market, as
measured by the Standard &
Poor’s 500 Index, surged 23
percent last year, the minimum
net worth of the 50 richest
members of Congress gained only
6.5 percent on average, according
to data from Roll Call. Hopefully
they can be counted on to steward
the nation’s finances better than
their own.
But given the exploding federal 4. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-
debt burden — about 60 percent W.Va., $82 million
of GDP — it’s probably fair to 5. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-
say that House and Senate Texas, $74 million
members are managing their 6. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., $70
personal finances better than the million.
country’s. 7. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., $56
Of the wealthiest 50 in Congress, million
27 are Democrats and 23 are 8. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla.,
Republicans. That means $55 million
Democrats account for 54 percent 9. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.,
of the group. Meanwhile, $50 million
Democrats make up 59 percent of 10. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-
Congress overall. So one could Calif., $46 million
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64 Science/
Biologists Use Smart Recognition Software to ID
Specific Animals Visually Instead of Tagging Them
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:32:50 PM
The Leatherback Sea Turtle The
spot atop the leatherback's head
can be used as a biomarker,
making it easier and safer for
marine biologists to identify
individual specimens without
resorting to radio tagging or other
electronic marking methods.
rustinpc via Wikimedia
Imagine if every time you needed
to officially identify yourself you
had to be sedated and knocked out
cold. This might sound only
slightly less stressful than
checking through security at the
airport, but for animals being
tracked by wildlife authorities and
researchers it's a regularity that is
not only stressful, but potentially
harmful. But new "visual
fingerprinting" technology that
recognizes individual animals
based on physical characteristics -
similar to face recognition
technology - is allowing
researchers to track animals from
afar, sans the tranquilizer darts
and physical ID tags.
One beneficiary of this emerging
technology is the leatherback sea
turtle, which marine biologists
usually identify by conventional
plastic tags. These tags often fall
off, leaving behind scars but no
way to identify specific
specimens. So conservation group
Widecast approached a Dutch
computing firm about developing
an algorithm that can identify
turtles by unique, pigment-free
spots on top of their heads,
encoding those distinct patches
into a biomarker.
Using a biomarker database, the
Widecast team is able to identify
turtles not just in person, but from
digital photographs taken of the
turtles' heads. This opens up a
whole new kind of crowdsourced
science, in which anyone who
happens across a sea turtle can
snap a photo of its head with a
smartphone or camera and upload
it to a database along with geo-
location data and other relevant
info. The system can identify the
turtle, building a profile for each
specimen and its activities for
researchers and wildlife
authorities to draw upon.
Non-invasive, digital biomarking
schemes are being developed for
other animal species. African
penguins can be digitally
identified by the unique markings
on their chests, while black rhinos
(for whom sedatives can cause
fertility problems in females) can
be identified in absentia from
their footprints alone. Similar
footprint-recognition software has
been used to create biometric
signatures for white rhinos, polar
bears, and cheetahs as well.
Such biomarker databases, made
ubiquitous, could change the way
biologists conduct their research
as everyone from farmers to
photographers to hikers and
outdoors enthusiasts could
contribute - easily and in real time
- to both specific studies and to
the larger cannon of wildlife
study. As for the animals
themselves, a quick vanity shot
from a digi-cam sure beats a shot
of heavy sedatives.
[ New Scientist]
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Boeing's Aerial Sensor
Tech to Aid Search for
Dwindling Rare Earth
Elements
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:48:06 AM
Neodymium Images of Elements
via Wikimedia
Rare earth elements have
received a good deal of attention
lately, not least because they are
indeed very rare, and the country
holding most known reserves -
China - is gobbling them up faster
than it can mine them, leaving
few leftovers for export. But now
Boeing has announced a deal to
deploy its remote sensing
technology to map out possible
U.S. deposits of rare earth
elements in an effort to rebuild a
domestic supply chain for U.S.
industry.
Rare earth minerals are crucial
for everything from high-tech
computing hardware to cell
phones to military tech. Some
estimates suggest China holds as
BOEING'S page 65
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Chainless Bicycle Uses Wire and Pulley System,
Eliminating Grease and Increasing Cool Factor
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:36:58 AM
Chainless Bike The new
Stringbike uses steel wires instead
of a chain. Hungarian Ambiance
Meet the Stringbike
A Hungarian design team has
unveiled a new chainless bike,
powered by steel wires, that easily
disassembles and can be
organized for touring or racing.
The "Stringbike" uses two steel
cables attached to pulleys, which
move on swinging kidney-shaped
discs as you pedal. The discs
replace a traditional round gear
system, and you can install
different discs depending on your
needs, according to the Web site
Hungarian Ambiance.
The position of the pedals
determines the position of the
discs, so that they swing in
opposition - one is always pulling
the bike forward, and the other
BOEING'S
continued from page 64
much as 97 percent of the planet's
rare earth oxides, but even with
those vast holdings the nation
recently cut back on exports to
feed its own insatiable demand for
the stuff.
Meanwhile, new rare earth mines
are planned in the U.S., Canada,
Australia, and Africa, but
operations won't be up and
running for a few years. During
lags behind. This allows a
continuous transmission change,
which could help a rider navigate
winding streets, because you can
more easily control the
transmission without having to
shift gears. This video
demonstrates the concept.
Unlike a typical 10-speed with a
derailleur, you won't feel any
that time, Boeing's remote sensing
technology will hopefully be able
to confirm the existence of both
"light" and "heavy" rare earth
deposits in places like Idaho and
Montana, where earlier sampling
has shown concentrations of some
valuable rare earth elements.
Boeing's proprietary technology
can be deployed from overhead
via airplanes or satellites,
slippage when you shift gears -
higher or lower gear is obtained
by higher or lower placement of
the pulleys.
The wires can even be set
asymmetrically, which would
provide a different weight load on
each leg because one would have
to work harder than the other.
This is impossible with a
scanning wide swaths of the
ground for electromagnetic
signatures that suggest the
presence of certain substances like
neodymium. The highly magnetic
element is used in everything
from hard drives to hybrid cars to
fighter jets, and securing reserves
of the stuff is essential to future
industrial advances in everything
from computing to alternative
traditional geared bike, but it
could be useful for training or for
riders with injuries, as Hungarian
Ambiance points out.
The Stringbike, developed at bike
-maker Schwinn Csepel Ltd., is
also more convenient for those
without racks - both wheels come
off quickly and cleanly, because
there are no chains or derailleurs
to align. Bike commuters won't
have to worry about chain grease
soiling their khakis, either. And
because there are fewer
components, it could eventually
be cheaper to produce than
traditional bikes.
Plus, it looks cool, meaning the
Stringbike could be the hipster
set's next obsession. At least it's
more functional than the
ubiquitous fixie.
[ Hungarian Ambiance
energy.
Put another way, we need rare
earth elements to move forward
with a lot of the technologies that
are widely considered to be the
future, be they wind turbines,
cleaner-burning cars, or smart
electrical grids. Which explains
Boeing's enthusiasm for joining
the search; Boeing builds
everything from airliners to
Science/ 65
Silicon Carbide Sensors,
Resistant to 1,600-Degree
Heat, Could Monitor
Conditions Inside
Volcanoes
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:29:52 PM
Mount St. Helens A little more
warning would be nice next time.
Geologists would love to get a
closer look at what's going on
underneath active volcanoes, but
the very thing that makes them so
interesting -- their ability to
unleash super-hot, super-violent
geological destruction -- makes
them hard to get too close to. But
a new breed of wireless sensor
SILICON page 66
satellites to fighter jets, not to
mention many of the high-tech
flight, targeting, and navigation
systems therein. In fact, though
Boeing isn't saying much about
the technology, there's a good
chance the very sensing tech
being used to search for rare earth
elements is itself chock full of
BOEING'S page 66
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SILICON
continued from page 65
that can withstand temperatures
above 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit
could change all that, allowing
researchers to implement a
wireless early-warning sensor
network deep within a volcano's
molten-hot bowels.
The technology is based on an
electronics material known as
silicon carbide that can withstand
-- and continue to operate under --
extremely hot conditions.
Dropped into the caldera of an
active volcano, silicon carbide
sensors could monitor for small
changes in gas levels like sulphur
dioxide in real time, feeding
information wirelessly to a
communications center positioned
BOEING'S
continued from page 65
rare earth elements.
That fact isn't lost on companies [ TechNewsDaily]
like Boeing. Re-establishing a
domestic supply chain of rare
earths won't take place overnight,
but with so much skin in the game
there's a good chance American
industry will figure out how to get
safely away from a potential
eruption.
By monitoring such gases,
geologists and vulcanologists
could better predict when a
volcano is about to blow its top,
giving disaster response teams
ample time to get into place and
anyone living in the blast area
more time to get out of harm's
way. Considering some half a
billion people live within potential
striking distance of a volcano, that
could be the difference between
mere property damage and loss of
life.
Volcanoes aren't the only places
silicon carbide could come in
handy. Its resistance to high doses
it done.
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of radiation could open it to
myriad uses in nuclear
technology, and sensors made of
the stuff could be placed in places
where the threat of attack is great,
allowing authorities to ascertain
what's going on -- atmospherically
speaking -- in a subway tunnel or
at the site of a nuclear attack even
after an explosion or other event
has devastated other
infrastructure.
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Bike Off the Pounds
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:00:00 AM
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About half of us live fewer than
five miles from our job. But
according to recent stats, more
than eight in 10 of us drive to
work. Leave the keys at home and
burn massive calories—at least
500 an hour. The extra benefits of
riding to work:
Reliability
"it takes me almost exactly the
same amount of time each day to
get to and from work—to the
minute," says Andy Clarke,
president of the League of
American Bicyclists, in
Washington, D.C.
Saving the Earth
Bike displace more than 238
million gallons of gasoline
annually. For every four miles
you peddle instead of driving,
roughly 15 pounds of pollutants
are kept out of the air.
Improving Your Work
Exercise can make you a happier,
less stressed and more productive
employee.
Extra Spending Money
Beyond the obvious savings
(parking, gas, repairs), you can
get up to $240 a year in employer
sponsored tax credits to help
cover the cost of a bike, lock, and
helmet.
News about Newman
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 9:00:18 AM
On the final day of his United
Kingdom trip, Pope Benedict XVI
formally beatified English
theologian and apologist Cardinal
John Henry Newman. Let’s look
at some of the stories about
Newman. NPR’s excellent
religion reporter Barbara Bradley
Hagerty had a piece speculating
that Newman was gay. I thought it
a completely bizarre approach for
the main story the news outlet
chose to report on the man.
The piece itself acknowledges,
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option is probably not the route Health? There’s lots of passive voice and
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stiffness and rust). friendship Newman shared with
Ambrose St. John.
Now, my main question about
this story is the simple angle.
Why this angle over all the
others? There are so many
interesting things to explore about
Newman, his writings, his life, his
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legacy. NPR chose, instead, to
speculate about his sexual
orientation.
But if you’re going to do it —
why not do it better? Use more or
better sources. Or put the close
friendship in context. Close male
friendships may be difficult to
find these days, but they weren’t
rare at all in 19th century
England. The article uses the fact
that Newman asked to be buried
in the same grave as his best
friend, but doesn’t mention that
such grave sharing was common.
It is possible to have deep,
abiding, platonic love with
someone else, even if such a
relationship is considered odd in
our highly-sexualized society that
sometimes denigrates friendship.
Or perhaps provide better
evidence. Does the Catholic
Church discourage such particular
friendships? Was Newman’s
reputation as something of a
liberal part of the reason why this
accusation has spread?
There’s also the odd use of
ascribing modern concepts —
such as calling someone “gay” —
to 19th-century figures. This is a
relatively recent construct and
identity. There are better ways to
phrase this. I think the article is
trying to ask — either because of
an inability of modern people to
understand 19th-century
friendship or some other more
mysterious reason — if Newman
experienced same-sex sexual
attraction. That’s something
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Wait a minute, who wrote the icons?

tmatt (GetReligion) Eastern Orthodoxy here in North A vivid, larger than life-size era. question: How many of these
Submitted at 9/19/2010 9:00:51 PM America. I was particularly image of the Virgin Mary, If there is anything wrong with people are converts and how
interested in this story because of accompanied by a young Jesus, the start of this story, it’s the many are part of a stream of
T i m e f o r a d i p i n t o m y the years that I spent covering stretches her arms out above the assumption that this parish is ethnic believers? But, no, we are
GetReligion folder of guilt, that religion in Colorado. So a altar. The Messiah — surrounded somehow strange or unique. The told:
file into which I put stories that I beautiful new Orthodox sanctuary by painted prophets — gazes Camera team does not seem to Christi Ghiz, 40, has been an
really want to write about when I near the People’s Republic of down from the dome inside the realize that the growth of Father Orthodox Christian for 15 years.
f i n a l l y g e t a f e w m i n u t e s , Boulder caught my attention. church’s temple, which is adorned David Mustian’s flock is part of a The Lafayette woman started off
somehow, to read them carefully Here’s the start of the report in with Byzantine arches and larger phenomenon that has been as a Baptist, but saw in her new
and then write a post. The Daily Camera: columns. going on in North America for faith a rich history that seemed to
OK, all of you non-Orthodox The building is brand-new, the There’s no organ here — all several decades. be fading from the Protestant
readers, this is a strange one. land never before scraped, but the music is chanted or sung a Yes, Orthodoxy is an old faith services she attended. …
Please hang in there with me. site in Erie where St. Luke cappella. There are no statues — with roots to the birth of Ghiz said that sense of tradition
On one level, this is a perfectly Orthodox Christian Church now warm-hued iconography is the Christianity. So what is the news? is “comforting.” More than half of
normal mainstream story about sits has roots going back nearly rule. Standing inside St. Luke At first, I thought the story was WAIT page 71
life in the convert-friendly era of two millennia. evokes a different time, a different going to skip the obvious
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Tragic details
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
(GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:18:43 PM
For such a dramatic story, the
New York Times headline does
not do a recent tragedy justice:
“Bronx Church Mourns Death of
Its Leader.” The pastor, his wife
and four congregants from the
Bronx were killed when their
church van flipped several times.
Fourteen congregant had
crowded into a 1997 Ford
minivan on Saturday and headed
toward Schenectady, N.Y., to
celebrate the second anniversary
of a church founded by a nephew
of Simon White’s, the bishop at
Joy Fellowship.
A little more than 40 miles north
of New York City, near the
Woodbury Common outlet stores,
the rear tire on the driver’s side of
the minivan blew out. The vehicle
swerved off the pavement and
rolled several times before
coming to rest upside down on the
grassy center meridian.
Six passengers in the van died,
including Mr. White, 55; his wife,
Zelda, 52; and Mr. White’s older
sister, Elaine Reid, 65.
Emergency workers transported
the other eight, including the
van’s driver, to three area
hospitals. Several remained in
critical condition on Sunday.
The story came across my phone
before I saw the horrifying image
on a computer screen. Click
through to see the smashed van.
The Times’ coverage seems fairly
typical for tragedy follow-up
story, though it would be nice to
know more about the church
itself. The final paragraphs briefly
touch on how a church member
might respond to the mess.
Delores Tulloch, a member at Joy
Fellowship, said she was taken
aback that such a tragedy had
happened on what should have
been a festive day.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me,
but I know God has a plan,” she
said.
It’s a touching ending, but I’m
still left wondering what kind of
church it is, whether it’s affiliated
with a denomination or not. There
are some references related to
how many of the 50 congregants
coming from Jamaica, but we
know little more about how this
church might respond differently
than, say, the church down the
road. The Wall Street Journal and
Newsday offer articles on the
pastor’s influence, though they
are blocked for subscribers only.
A quick scan of other reports
suggest that they don’t offer much
more.
Lanning Taliaferro of Patch.com
offers a few more interesting
details:
With a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in theology, Bishop White
received a Doctor of Divinity
from the Universal Theological
Institute (UTI) in 1996 and a PhD.
in Christian Education from Faith
Theological Seminary in 1998.
The Office of Bishop was
conferred upon him in 2006.
Zelda White, also a minister,
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Church of God and Word of Life
Christian Assemblies, both of
Newburgh, NY.
So why didn’t the Times explore
the other churches the pastor
founded? If the congregants were
employees of a corporation,
reporters would spend more time
discussing the specifics of the
organization, wouldn’t they?
Without trying to be too dramatic
or picky, these seem like fairly
basic editorial questions. It’s nice
to include memories and quotes
from the congregants, but the
story misses some basic
information that might help us
understand the church and how it
responds to tragedy.
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different than labeling someone
“gay.”
One of the sources for the story,
John Cornwall, has a really
fascinating essay in the Financial
Times accusing the Pope of
hijacking Newman’s legacy.
Cornwall is the one accused of
playing fast and loose with some
facts, for what it’s worth. And I
mention it again because The
Guardian had a completely
different essay by Eamon Duffy
that describes the influence
Newman had on Cardinal
Ratzinger. National Catholic
Reporter’s John Allen describes
both views, providing more
substantiation for the latter, in a
fascinating daily report. He ends
with some intriguing angles that
might have been worth some
additional American reporting:
If additional proof of Benedict’s
fondness for Newman were
needed, consider this: When the
pontiff was elected in April 2005,
he made it clear that the pope
would no longer celebrate
beatification Masses in Rome.
Instead, they were to be
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St. Luke’s 250 members are
converts from other faiths. That
includes Mustian, who converted
to Orthodox Christianity from the
Episcopal Church nearly 20 years
ago.
“I was looking for a church that
would stay the same in terms of
its doctrinal beliefs, which go
back to the early centuries,” said
the 56-year-old Yale Divinity
performed in the diocese by the
local bishop, to underscore that a
“blessed” belongs to a local
church.
Over these past five years,
Benedict XVI has stuck to that
policy, declining to celebrate a
single beatification Mass — until
today. Benedict chose to make
Newman his first, and potentially
his only, beatification Mass,
confirmation indeed that Newman
is close to this theologian-
pope’s heart.
Whether Benedict this morning is
“hijacking” Newman, or setting
free the real man beneath
ideologically charged
interpretations, will continue to be
a matter of debate. That Benedict
XVI takes Newman’s life and
legacy seriously, however, is
beyond any doubt.
One American footnote to this
morning’s events: The miracle
report which qualified Newman to
become “blessed” involves Jack
Sullivan, a Catholic deacon in
Boston, who reported being
miraculously cured of a spinal
disorder after praying for
School graduate. “The problem
with always trying to appeal to the
right now means you’re quickly
out of date.”
So, we are rolling along in pretty
ordinary territory and suddenly
things get really strange.
You see, readers never find out if
St. Luke’s is part of one of the
major jurisdictions of Eastern
Orthodoxy — Greek, Ukrainian,
Newman’s intercession. Sullivan
was one of the deacons who
assisted with this morning’s
beatification Mass.
I love learning things like this.
And speaking of learning things, I
have to point out one last
Newman story that shows how
much better religion reporting can
be done with just a little
knowledge. In this case, some
knowledge of saints and liturgical
calendars. This comes from
Catholic News Service:
When Pope Benedict XVI
beatifies Cardinal John Henry
Newman in mid-September, he’ll
announce the new blessed’s feast
day as Oct. 9— not the date of his
death, which is typical for feast
days, but the date of Cardinal
Newman’s passage from
Anglicanism into the Catholic
Church.
Oooh, take that, Church of
England! Just kidding, but the
story does explain that Vatican
regulations do allow a change for
the feast day if, say, the date of
death coincides with a major holy
day or is crowded with other
Russian, Serbian, Romanian or
whatever. Now, I thought this
parish was part of the Antiochian
Orthodox archdiocese here in
North America and, sure enough,
it’s easy to find that out with a
few clicks of a mouse ( look right
here). This is a pretty standard
fact to include in this kind of
story.
That being the case, I was
saints. Then, a different
significant date is allowed. It’s
significant in this case because the
Church of England already has
him on their liturgical calendar on
August 11, the date he died. The
story goes into some of the
labyrinthine decision making
process and ecumenical
implications. The subtext here is
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this reference a few paragraphs
later, in a discussion of the
sanctuary’s iconography.
“Iconography is a holy tradition,”
said Archbishop Gregory, an
Orthodox monk from the
Dormition Skete monastery
outside Buena Vista. “When a
person looks at an icon, their eyes
want to stay on it.”
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monastery in Buena Vista? That
had to be a mistake, thought I.
Perhaps this monk had a unique
title that the reporter simply
misunderstood.
No, the facts are a bit stranger
than that. As it turns out, this
Archbishop Gregory is part of a
body called the Genuine Orthodox
Church of America, an old-
calendar splinter church which
Orthodox Wiki rather bluntly
notes is “not in communion with
any Orthodox body.”
So let me see if I have this
straight. The iconography inside
this large and lovely new
Antiochian Orthodox sanctuary
was written by monks from a tiny,
non-canonical jurisdiction? I
would love to know the story
behind that transaction, although
that is probably a rather inside
baseball issue that would only
interest the Orthodox. Maybe.
Still, it is genuinely strange that a
report of this length does not
include any information about the
national and international roots of
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Archbishop Gregory and three of
his colleagues created all of the
icons for St. Luke, painting the
images on canvas and then gluing
them to the walls and ceiling of
the temple. He said it took about
six months to do the work.
Say what? There is an Orthodox
archbishop residing at a
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A Monumental Contest
Submitted at 9/20/2010 3:00:56 AM
W ith the primary season
complete, the terms of battle are
set -- for the general election and
for the next era in American
politics.
Barack Obama’s election in 2008
was said to constitute the next
great wave of progressivism after
FDR and LBJ. But a massive
electoral backlash is brewing
against his policies, all his stimuli
have manifestly failed, and his
party is increasingly in intellectual
and political disarray (witness its
agony on extending the Bush tax
cuts). Obama may only have set
the table for the third wave of
conservative reform, the first
instituted by Ronald Reagan in
the 1980s and the second (and less
consequential) by Newt Gingrich
in the mid-1990s.
Who gets their next wave, and
makes it endure, is the stakes in
this election and beyond. In this
monumental contest, a revitalized
limited-government conservatism
that says -- that insists --
“enough” is arrayed against a
progressivism that says, in the
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title of William Voegeli’s
compelling book on the ever-
voracious welfare state, “never
enough.”
Obama Democrats have created
facts on the ground over the last
two years that will take long work
to reverse, most significantly the
health-care law. But everything
that has happened since its
passage has served to make its
repeal more likely rather than less
-- it has remained unpopular;
practically every week has
brought news of another
unintended consequence or
noxious, previously un-noticed
provision; and Democrats are
running from it, in a favorite
phrase of Haley Barbour’s, “like
scalded dogs.”
More important, the Republican
party has remained resolute in
opposition and will be even more
so after November. A great
purifying fire raced through the
Republican party during the
primaries. While conservatives
might disagree with one another
over this or that tactical judgment-
-notably the one involved in last
week's Delaware primary--all of
us should cheer this season's
renewed vigor. In different
context, Andrew Mellon famously
spoke of “purging the rottenness.”
That’s what the primaries have
done, exposing and expunging
those Republicans who have no
greater commitment than to their
(rather undistinguished) careers.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, now
waging a write-in campaign, is the
latest example. She began her
Senate career on the strength of an
unseemly act of nepotism
(appointed by dear old dad) and
will end it in an unseemly act of
unprincipled desperation. Trading
Murkowski, Arlen Specter, and
Charlie Crist -- all of whom
lacked a minimal loyalty to party -
- for Joe Miller, Pat Toomey, and
Marco Rubio will be a vast
upgrade in talent, idealism, and
persuasive power for Senate
Republicans.
For years, conservatives have
plaintively remarked, “if only we
had another Reagan#...#.” It was
nostalgia as an excuse for not
grappling with contemporary
political circumstances. Not
anymore. Conservatives have
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Sanctions
Submitted at 9/20/2010 3:00:29 AM
This article first appeared in
NR’s October 4 issue.
T he U.S.-led financial-sanctions
campaign currently under way
against Iran is biting, but it isn’t
enough. To change the Iranian
literally taken to the streets in a regime’s nuclear calculus, the
tea-party movement that doesn’t a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d t h e
just reflect the political moment international community need to
b u t l a r g e l y d e f i n e s i t . I f act urgently to pressure Tehran
Democrats were foolhardy to take along multiple lines.
the 2008 election as a mandate for To be sure, the latest escalation
everything their hearts have ever o f s a n c t i o n s a n d f i n a n c i a l
desired, they were near-suicidal to isolation is hurting the regime.
persist in their course in the face Legitimate banks, insurance and
of the tea-party protests of August shipping companies, and energy
2009. firms are abandoning business
We can’t be sure exactly what the with Iran for fear of sanctions and
political landscape will look like risk to their reputations. The most
after November, except that it will recent round of sanctions -- those
have shifted to the right. The set in motion by the United States,
stage will then be set for the fight along with the European Union’s
for the presidency in 2012, which most severe measures against Iran
will be enormously consequential. since the passage of U.N. Security
In 2013, either President Obama Council Resolution 1929 --
consolidates his progressive increased the pressure on Iran’s
achievements and builds on them e c o n o m y b y t a r g e t i n g i t s
in a way that irrevocably changes dependence on refined-petroleum
the country, or a conservative imports and closing correspondent
begins to return the country to its relationships between Iranian
foundations. We are not even at b a n k s a n d t h o s e i n o t h e r
the end of the beginning of this countries. And more nations are
monumental contest, but win it, adding their voices to this chorus.
we must. The Editors Significantly, Japan and South
Korea, two of Iran’s largest
trading partners, just announced
that they would impose harsh
sanctions and target designated
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Iranian entities.
#ad#The U.S. Congress recently
passed the Comprehensive Iran
Sanctions, Accountability, and
Divestment Act, which has
created fear of secondary
sanctions against non-American
companies still doing business
with Iran. Lloyd’s of London has
announced it will stop insuring or
reinsuring refined-petroleum
shipments into Iran. European
insurance giants Allianz, Munich
Re, and Hannover Re have
committed to ending business ties
with Iran. Multinational firms
including Total, Repsol, Royal
Dutch Shell, BP, Eni, Petronas,
Reliance, Glencore, Trafigura,
and Vitol have all ended their
refined-petroleum trade or energy
investments in Iran. In July, Iran’s
gasoline imports were down 50
percent from May, according to
the International Energy Agency,
and according to Reuters they
were down 90 percent in August
from the previous year. The State
Department estimates that $50 to
$60 billion in upstream energy-
development projects (i.e.,
exploration and production) have
been terminated or put on hold
over the last several years.
These sanctions work because
they are triggered by Iranian
activity, which is growing less
transparent and more suspicious,
thus causing further reluctance by
the private sector to do business
with Iran. As Iran’s financial
isolation grows, Iranian ventures -
- especially those controlled
directly by the regime -- will seek
to hide their activities in order to
evade scrutiny and sanctions,
causing the private sector to
worry further about business with
Iranian entities. In June, the
Treasury Department issued a
financial advisory for precisely
this reason.
Another factor is the growing and
visible role of the harsh and
repressive Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran’s
economy. The sanctions target
IRGC leaders and front
companies, which may account
for the withdrawal from the South
Pars gas-field development (the
world’s largest, and shared
between Iran and Qatar) of
Khatam al-Anbia, the IRGC’s
engineering company. All this
fuels the suspicion of the
legitimate financial and
commercial worlds and is
amplified by the Iranian regime’s
electoral illegitimacy and human-
rights violations, along with the
growing evidence of duplicity
regarding its nuclear program.
This pressure will increase stress
on an Iranian economy already
battered by profound
mismanagement, years of growing
isolation, and the global economic
downturn. It also appears to be
exacerbating tensions within the
regime, which were already
serious enough to threaten its
stability.
Unfortunately, the sanctions
campaign alone won’t be enough
to stop Iran’s march toward
nuclear-weapons capability.
Though Defense Secretary Robert
Gates and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton have described
sanctions as a tool to change the
Iranian regime’s thinking about its
weapons program, CIA director
Leon Panetta has admitted that
they will not achieve this goal,
and that the emergence of a
nuclear-weapons-capable Iran is
possible within two years. Karim
Sadjadpour, an Iran expert from
the Carnegie Endowment, has
emphasized this point, noting that
Tehran’s hardliners are hard-
wired to oppose the United States
and to resist compromise in the
face of direct pressure. Time is
running out; the threat of an
Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear
facilities is increasing; and the
administration is at a loss to
decide what’s next.
It has hamstrung itself by talking
about the utility of sanctions in
maximalist terms. Secretary Gates
explained that the point of
sanctions is to “persuade the
Iranians that they . . . will
undermine their security by
pursuit of nuclear weapons, not
enhance it.” Biting sanctions can
achieve important objectives,
though those objectives may
sometimes be peripheral to the
Iranian regime’s nuclear calculus.
As stated above, they can
exacerbate internal regime
fissures and increase the isolation
of the regime; they can also buy
time by delaying supplies Iran
needs for its nuclear program,
interrupt flows of funds sent to
terrorist proxies, and serve as a
diplomatic chip if the regime ever
comes to the table. But we need to
use this pressure as a starting
point, and use multiple lines of
pressure at once against Tehran.
#page#The Obama administration
has framed its engagement with
Iran as a step-by-step diplomatic
dance, with an ascending scale of
confrontation. Sanctions and
financial pressure come in the
middle of that dance -- after
engagement and before other
options (presumably military).
Aside from giving Iran more time
by dismissing the diplomatic
engagement that occurred before
January 2009, this framework
constrains the administration’s
ability to think about financial
pressure as one part of a much
broader campaign, with multiple
approaches pursued
simultaneously, to build leverage
against the regime. Such leverage
could help at the negotiating table
or could lead to regime change.
But the mullahs know the steps to
this dance, and their diplomatic
maneuvers (such as making
insincere offers of negotiations,
with unrealistic conditions
attached, that the administration
will have to follow up on) can buy
them more time. The strategic
ambiguity of “all options on the
table” is undermined by the
tactical predictability of the
Obama administration’s strategy.
Most troubling, the administration
has seen a potential dialogue with
the regime as a goal in and of
itself. This way of thinking has
foreclosed opportunities to build
multiple sources of leverage. A
case in point: The
administration’s muted response
to the Green Movement opposing
last year’s fraudulent election.
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Obama’s temporizing made clear
that he saw the movement as a
complication to be avoided rather
than a strategic opportunity.
We should pursue our Iran policy
on three separate tracks
simultaneously. Our approach
should attempt to (a) slow the
Iranian nuclear clock, (b) create
and exacerbate fissures within the
Iranian regime and Iranian
society, and (c) build other forms
of leverage that could affect the
regime’s decision-making and
enhance our credibility with
allies. Here’s how:
#ad##*#Build on the momentum
of our financial-pressure
campaign, highlighting Iran’s
deceptive business practices, and
anything the IRGC does to control
the Iranian economy, by all
available means, including
Treasury advisories suggesting
caution when dealing with certain
entities, designations of firms as
terrorist-affiliated, public hearings
in Congress or other bodies, and
private meetings with commercial
actors still doing business with
Iran. The Treasury should
threaten and enforce sanctions on
any entity doing business with the
IRGC or the 16 designated Iranian
banks. This could be followed by
the designation of Iran and its
central bank as “primary money
laundering concerns” under
section 311 of the Patriot Act,
signaling to the international
financial community not to trust
any Iranian commercial activity.
The United States does not need
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A Meditation on 9/11
David Solway (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:25:27 PM
The 2010 anniversary of 9/11 has
come and gone and the question
that people are asking is whether
America has learned anything
from the most devastating attack
ever launched on the American
mainland. Has anything changed
since the early days when a
terracotta army of treasonable
intellectuals assembled in rows to
condemn the United States for
having deserved the carnage
visited upon it—and in the
process acquitted both the
terrorists who slaughtered
thousands of innocents and Islam
itself which incubated their
murderous rage?
The rogue’s gallery is
represented by the likes of Ward
Churchill, Robert Jensen, Edward
Said, Susan Sontag, Naomi Klein,
Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark,
William Blum and Howard Zinn,
to name just a sparse handful.
That millions of Muslims
celebrated 9/11 worldwide is
understandable if deplorable; but
that highly-educated Western
intellectuals should blaspheme the
memory of their own dead is
almost beyond comprehension
and surely beyond repentance.
The sympathy they so prodigally
exhibit is almost never with their
own people, the particular
individuals murdered by the
terrorists—office workers,
firemen and policemen,
passengers, pilots and flight
attendants, mothers and young
children facing the horror of their
own approaching deaths—but
with an abstract population of
Afghanis, Iraqis and Muslims
worldwide to whom they gave
scarcely a passing thought before
the American counteraction.
Nothing much seems to have
changed since September 2001
though the rhetoric has been toned
down, more or less. The
contemporary nuances, however,
merely camouflage the underlying
anti-American toxin. President
Obama assures us, in the very
teeth of the monstrous, that “we
will not or ever be at war with
Islam” but with “a small band of
sorry men” who have hijacked a
religion of peace and amity. The
president is here displaying either
his ignorance, his duplicity or his
sympathies, probably all three.
Similarly, Obama’s national
security adviser for
counterterrorism, John Brennan,
acting on the orders of his boss,
denies that “there is an Islamic
dimension to terrorism,” which is
tantamount to denying that there
is a physical dimension to
homicide.
The current development around
which the ongoing controversy
revolves is the proposed
construction of the Cordoba
mosque abutting Ground Zero,
which has become what T.S. Eliot
called an “ objective correlative,”
defined as “a set of objects, a
situation, a chain of events which
shall be the formula of [a]
particular emotion.” Many have
come out in support of this
project. The mayor of New York
is all for it. Dennis Prager
provides a long list of invective-
spewing human keyboards like
Michael Kinsley, Roger Ebert,
Andrew Sullivan, Peter Beinart
and James Zogby who have
launched virtual obscenities at
those who oppose the mosque.
Media types like Dick Cavett,
Frank Rich and Nicholas Kristoff
and an army of left-liberal
temporizers and appeasers, as
Susannah Fleetwood points out,
have all given the green light to
the Cordoba project,
notwithstanding that nine years
after its destruction the World
Trade Center has yet to be rebuilt.
Their logic and methodology are
wondrous strange. Although
political leaders, intellectuals,
journalists and peace marchers
have rallied around the mosque,
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approximately 70% of the
American public agree with Ms.
Burlingame’s anti-mosque
position, which disposes one to
speculate about who are the real
rabble-rousers. So much for
Horowitz’s imputation that it is
“national conservatives” who are
targeting the center.
Even Christopher Hitchens, while
recognizing the imam’s plainly
suspect credentials, regrets “the
crass nature of the opposition to
the center” and believes that
arguments countering the
construction of the mosque are
“so stupid and demagogic as to be
beneath notice.” It would seem
that the imam may not be above
stressing its sponsoring imam reproach but those who bridle at
Feisal Abdul Rauf’s constitutional his “initiative” are undoubtedly
r i g h t t o b u i l d t h e m o s q u e beneath contempt. Hitchens titles
wherever he pleases, they have at his column “ Much Ado About
the same time savagely attacked ‘Tolerance’,” a quality whose
pastor Terry Jones who exercised p e r i l o u s a m b i g u i t y h e h a s
his constitutional right by neglected to parse.
threatening to burn the Koran. And in another of his vapid
The fact that Jones put his auto-da Newsweek articles, while not
-fé on the back-burner does not speaking directly about the
appear to have mitigated the Cordoba mosque, Fareed Zakaria
indignation of this sanctimonious b r e e z i l y o p i n e s t h a t “ w e
and irascible multitude. overreacted to 9/11” when it is
Then we have Jason Horowitz clear that, after the initial
writing in The Washington Post response, we have consistently
who speaks of “rabble-rousing u n d e r r e a c t e d t o t h e t h r e a t ,
o u t s i d e r s , ” b u t n e g l e c t s t o especially under the limp and
m e n t i o n t h a t o n e o f t h e s e conciliatory administration of the
supposed miscreants is Debra current president. Al-Qaeda,
Burlingame, the sister of the pilot according to Zakaria, “is simply
whose plane crashed into the not that deadly a threat.” That al-
Pentagon, who is co-founder of Q a e d a h a s r e p o r t e d l y n o w
Keep America Safe and director established itself in 62 countries
of the National September 11
Memorial. Polls indicate that MEDITATION page 83
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Harry Reid’s ‘Pet’
Submitted at 9/20/2010 3:00:50 AM
If Delawareans want a down-the-
line, tick-the-box, reliable vote for
President Obama and the
Democratic leadership, Chris
Coons is their man.
C hristine O’Donnell is the
Republican nominee for the
Senate in Delaware, and whatever
you think of her qualifications, it
is time to take a look at her
opponent and decide what is at
stake in this race. Chris Coons,
the Democratic nominee, would
be, if his record is any indication,
a solid vote for tax increases,
against repeal of Obamacare, for
cap-and-trade, and against most
GOP proposals to curb spending.
He would be likely to back
another stimulus package if
Obama proposed one. His
background indicates that he
shares the president’s exception-
taking to American
exceptionalism. More than
anything else, he would be a
down-the-line, tick-the-box,
reliable vote for President Obama
and the Democratic leadership,
whether or not that still includes
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, who recently called Coons
“my pet.” Here are five things you
should know about Chris Coons:
1. Obama’s rubber stamp:“I’m
someone who would broadly
support the agenda of our
president,” Coons told a group of
supporters. “I think we need more
folks in the Senate of the United
States who are . . . willing to work
in responsible partnership with an
administration that I think made
the right choice on health care, on
the stimulus, on the jobs bill.”
Coons backs other pillars of the
administration’s agenda such as a
cap-and-trade program and the
Dodd-Frank financial regulation.
His support for taxpayer-funded
abortion and partial-birth abortion
earned him a 100 percent rating
from NARAL Pro-Choice
America. He favors amnesty for
immigrants who are here illegally.
His statements on the economy
indicate that he thinks we need
another stimulus bill. Obama is
our most liberal president in
decades; Coons would be a
reliable vote for whatever remains
of his agenda and a reliable vote
against repealing those items he
has already enacted.
2. Party man: In a wave election
year where voter sentiment is
running strongly against the
Democratic party, Coons is the
epitome of a party apparatchik.
When all signs were pointing
toward Mike Castle’s being the
Republican nominee, Coons was
recruited by Democratic elders to
run against him, and he gladly
accepted the mission, despite its
apparent futility. Castle, a fixture
of Delaware politics and winner
of eleven straight statewide
elections, was expected to win the
seat walking away. Ted Kaufman,
the longtime Biden aide who took
over Biden’s seat, had already
announced that he wouldn’t run.
Most political observers assumed
that Kaufman was keeping the
seat warm for Biden’s son, Beau,
an Iraq War veteran currently
serving as Delaware’s attorney
general. Beau was widely
expected to run in 2010, but last
January, following the Scott
Brown stunner in Massachusetts,
Biden fils announced that maybe
this just wasn’t his year. The party
needed someone else to get beaten
by Castle, so -- loyal party man
that he is -- Coons stepped up to
take the fall.
3. Three tax hikes in four years:
In 2004, when he was elected
county executive of New Castle
County, Coons inherited a budget
surplus and promised not to raise
taxes. He proceeded to break that
promise three times between 2006
and 2010, raising property taxes
by 5, then 17.5, then 25 percent.
When asked about the tax hikes at
a recent debate with O’Donnell,
Coons said, as reported by the
Wilmington News Journal, that
“Without a tax increase, he would
have been forced to lay off police
and close parks and libraries.”
Like most Democrats, Coons has
been cowed by public-sector
unions into taking the position
that public-sector jobs are more
important than the jobs that are
inevitably lost when taxes rise. In
the Senate, he would be a proud
member of the voting bloc that
has already transferred tens of
billions of dollars from federal
taxpayers to those state
governments that spent the bubble
years spending themselves into
insolvency.
4. Politicized hiring and firing:
Coons is running as a good-
government liberal who will clean
up Washington, promising to
introduce a law restricting
lobbying by former lawmakers.
But as county executive, Coons
engineered the dismissal of a
political opponent’s brother in a
manner that, had a Republican
done it, would have prompted
liberals to cry scandal. In 2004,
Coons beat Sherry Freebery in the
Democratic primary for county
executive. Freebery’s brother, a
county manager, had supported
her campaign. When Coons took
office, he pushed state lawmakers
to change the status of county
managers from merit-based
positions to political
appointments, according to the
News Journal. As soon as the
legislature made the change,
Coons fired Freebery’s brother.
This kind of thing formed the
basis of the allegations of
politicized hiring and firing
against George W. Bush’s Justice
Department and against Sarah
Palin as governor of Alaska, but
Coons apparently gets a pass
because he’s a Democrat.
5. Drank the Amherst Kool-Aid:
While an undergraduate at
Amherst College in
Massachusetts, Coons published
an article in the student
newspaper about how his
exposure to the academic Left had
transformed him from a “proud
founding member of the Amherst
College Republicans” into a
“bearded Marxist.” He was only
slightly exaggerating. According
to Politico:
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In one passage of the article,
Coons explains how in the months
leading up to the trip abroad
“leftists” on campus and college
professors had begun to
“challenge the basic assumptions”
he had formed about America.
A course on cultural
anthropology, noted Coons, had
“undermined the accepted value
of progress and the cultural
superiority of the West,” while a
class on the Vietnam War led him
to “suspect . . . that the ideal of
America as a ‘beacon of freedom
and justice, providing hope for the
world’ was not exactly based in
reality.”
Coons wrote that a study-abroad
experience in Africa completed
his transformation -- something
about the many parallels he saw
between Kenya’s kleptocratic
elites and American capitalists.
None of us wants to be judged by
our college ramblings, but Coons
turned his ramblings into a career:
He spent the first ten years of his
post-grad life at various left-
leaning nonprofits and in the
academy, and, of the eight years
he spent as a lawyer in the for-
profit sector, four overlapped with
the beginnings of his career as a
politician. Coons’s academic and
career choices have perfectly
prepared him to serve as a valet to
Barack Obama in the Senate.
Delaware voters should deny him
the opportunity.
-- Stephen Spruiell is a National
Review Online staff reporter.
Stephen Spruiell
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Charlie Crist Is No Joe Lieberman

Submitted at 9/20/2010 3:00:47 AM
framing the election as a two- role in the race, even after being “The Bush White house gave its the total vote is only 21 percent.
horse race between him and in Washington for eighteen years, passing endorsement to Meek’s share of the vote may
A Florida independent seeks to fit Marco Rubio is reminiscent of because he had a record of Lieberman. So, you know, you change dramatically by election
the mold cast by the Senate’s last Lieberman’s success among GOP standing apart from the could make the case that day, however. “I think there’s
successful party defector. voters. And, of course, Crist partisanship and pettiness,” says Lieberman became the de facto going to be a point where, unless
W hen Florida governor Charlie himself has cited Lieberman as Dan Gerstein, who was Republican nominee.” he can really make some gains in
Crist announced in April that he inspiration. communications director for the Schlesinger ultimately took only the polls and prove to the people
would be leaving the GOP to run But the fact remains: Crist is no 2006 campaign. 10 percent of the vote, with 70 who might otherwise vote for
as an independent, comparisons to Lieberman, and however hard he Meanwhile, Crist’s breaks with percent of Republicans rallying Crist that he’s a viable candidate,
Joe Lieberman’s successful no- m a y t r y t o w a l k i n t h e the party he used to represent behind Lieberman. Crist’s route to you’re going to see a big swing
party bid were inevitable. Since Connecticut senator’s footsteps, have smacked of opportunism. victory will similarly require away from him,” Gerstein says.
then, the parallels have only stark differences between the two His vetoes of a teacher merit-pay Kendrick Meeks to run a distant “And then there’s going to be a
sharpened as Crist has sought to races suggest he will have bill and a pre-abortion-ultrasound third. point where Democrats are going
fit the mold cast by the Senate’s d i f f i c u l t y f o l l o w i n g a n requirement immediately before #page#“That’s the key to the race, to have to make a very tough
last successful party defector. independent path. and after he left the GOP conflict whether Crist can marginalize decision whether to abandon him
Indeed, Connecticut residents The most obvious difference is with the “Jeb Bush Republican” Meek to the point that Democratic or not.” But that will be a hard
watching TV in Florida would that Lieberman’s move to an message he sold while running for voters will say, ‘Well, I’m sell for Floridians who believe in
probably be hit with a nagging independent ticket represented a governor. Rubio’s campaign has wasting my vote voting for Meek both personally and
sense of déjà vu if they saw reflection of his beliefs, not a counted six different positions Meek,’” says Peter Brown, politically, especially since Crist
Charlie Crist’s current ad. Crist change in them. from Crist on health-care reform. assistant director of the refuses to say which side he
rearranges block letters from the “With Lieberman it was organic. Crist has also flip-flopped on gay Quinnipiac University Polling would caucus with if elected.
names of the two major parties to Eight months before he lost the adoption and described his Institute. “If Crist can get more The seven weeks until November
spell out the word “Americans” Democratic nomination, the shifting stance as an “appropriate Democrats than Meek gets, Crist leave plenty of time for change.
and says, “How do we get results polling showed he had a home evolution.” The Tampa Tribune is likely to be the next U.S. Competent management of a
for Florida? By putting aside our among Republicans, and, to a summed up popular sentiment in senator.” hurricane disaster could boost
differences and putting people lesser extent, independents,” says one bold, front-page headline: That’s more easily said than Crist at just the right moment, or
ahead of politics.” A 2006 ad of Mark Pazniokas, who covered the “Crist racks up contradictions.” done. If real-estate billionaire Jeff he could pledge to caucus with
Lieberman’s closed with him race for the Hartford Courant. “He Also, as he moves toward the Greene had won Florida’s Democrats to avoid being stuck in
saying, “I’m Joe Lieberman, and I e m p h a s i z e d m o r e a f t e r t h e center, Crist confronts the other Democratic primary, his baggage the middle. But there’s good
approve this message because it’s primary his ability to work across huge difference between this race -- scandals ranging from shady reason to believe that Florida
about people, not politics,” while party lines -- that was more and Lieberman’s: the strength of business deals to Cuban yacht 2010 won’t be like Connecticut
e r a s i n g a l i n e d r a w n o n a subtle. It wasn’t like he lost the the lagging third candidate, parties -- would have made him 2006 -- in which case Charlie
chalkboard between the words primary and suddenly remade Democrat Kendrick Meek. In analogous to Schlesinger. But Crist will soon find himself in the
“Democrats” and “Republicans.” himself.” Connecticut, Republican Alan Meek is a sitting congressman most independent position of all:
#ad#Other cues taken from In that way, Lieberman’s flight Schlesinger was perceived as with backing from heavyweights that of a private citizen.
Lieberman are more than just from the Democratic party almost damaged goods -- a candidate such as Bill Clinton and Rahm -- Kyle O. Peterson writes for
cosmetic. In June, Crist hired one made him seem more principled. who had used an alias to count Emanuel. National Review Online’ s Battle
of the architects of Lieberman’s “It was a really unique feat of cards in casinos and had been #ad#Indeed, the latest poll for ’10 blog. Kyle O. Peterson
campaign, consultant Josh Isay. jujitsu, because Lieberman was sued twice for gambling debts. which crosstabs are public shows
Crist’s strategy of boxing out able to claim -- in a certain sense, “The Republican party pretty Meek leading among Democratic
Democrat Kendrick Meek and steal -- the outsider mantle and much punted,” Pazniokas says. voters 47–31, though his share of
E-reader News Edition
The Third Choice
Mark Tapson (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:15:44 PM
Before it was innocuously
renamed Park 51, the Ground
Zero mosque development had
been known as the Cordoba
House, which proponents claimed
referred to a supposed golden age
of multi-faith tolerance under
Islamic rule. What they neglect to
mention is that historically, non-
Muslims under Muslim rule have
been presented with three choices:
conversion to Islam, death, or the
subservient status known as
dhimmitude.
A new book sheds light on that
little-understood condition and its
contemporary relevance. The
Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude
and Freedom by Dr. Mark Durie
was released in February by Deror
Books and short-listed for
Australian Christian Book of the
Year. A former linguistics
scholar, Durie is now the Vicar of
St. Mary’s Anglican Church,
Caulfield in Melbourne,
Australia. He writes and speaks
extensively in Australia and
internationally about Islam,
interfaith dialogue, religious
conflict, and the persecution of
religious minorities, especially
Christians living under Sharia
law.
I caught up with the author just
prior to his recent arrival in Los
Angeles to promote the book.
MT: Dr. Durie, I’d like to begin
talking about The Third Choice
by asking what inspired you, as an
Anglican priest, to write a study
of Islam and dhimmitude?
MD: I first became interested in
Islam when doing linguistic field
work in Aceh, Indonesia, in the
early 1980’s. The Acehnese
people are proud of their Islamic
identity, but despite enjoying
countless discussions about
religion with them, I made no
attempt to study Islam formally;
my whole focus was on linguistic
research. But I couldn’t escape
learning about jihad, because it
played such a large role in the
historical consciousness of the
people. An amazingly large
number of works of Acehnese
literature are jihad epics. Another
aspect of my experience was
contact with local Christians; this
is how I came to know of the
difficult circumstances of non-
Muslims living in an Islamic
society.
When I left academia to become
an Anglican minister, around
1998, I thought I was leaving
Islamic jihad well behind me. I
had no idea of the depth and
breadth of the global Islamic
movement. Then as I watched the
burning World Trade Center
towers collapse in the New York
morning sunshine, I knew there
was no ideology on this earth
other than Islamic jihad which
could have inspired such an
attack. It was no surprise when
verses from the Koran reportedly
found in the backpacks of the
terrorists were exactly the same
verses which had figured so
prominently in Acehnese jihad
epic poems from over a century
ago.
At that point I knew I had to try
to understand Islam properly. So I
read the hadiths, the Koran, and
Ibn Ishaq’s biography of
Muhammad in the months after 9/
11, with the eye of a theologian –
I was constantly asking how this
material would form people’s
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spiritual identity. This
exploration made me deeply
troubled. The persona of
Muhammad which arose before
me from Islam’s primary sources
shocked me to my core. I thought,
“If this man’s life is supposed to
be the best example, we are all in
deep trouble.”
I went to the Islamic Council
offices in Melbourne and bought
more books about Islam. One was
Maududi’s Let Us be Muslims.
This only increased my concern.
After chapters on all the essentials
of Islam, such as the pillars of
faith, Maududi concludes the
book with a call to
jihad. Everything else in Islam, he
said, was but a preparation for
toppling governments, taking
power, and establishing Islam in
the world. I thought this was an
ideal book for turning a pious
young Muslim into a jihad-ready
militant.
At that time I began to write and
teach on Islam, and I’ve been
going ever since. I wrote The
Third Choice to help people
understand Islam from the ground
up, and to know what it really
means to depend upon the
benevolence of an Islamic state
from the perspective of a dhimmi
– a non-Muslim living under
Islamic rule.
MT: How is your book different
from other works about the topic
by scholars like Andrew Bostom
or Bat Ye’or, who actually wrote
your foreword?
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Left Pushes Pre-Paid Abortions in Defense Bill

Chuck Donovan (The Foundry: both permitted and financed military health care facilities for
Conservative Policy News.) abortions in military facilities. elective abortion. Because of
Submitted at 9/20/2010 12:15:43 PM During a one-year period at that these objections, the Clinton
time, 26,000 service members and Administration resorted to efforts
Alongside another controversial dependents obtained abortions in to identify civilian physicians who
provision in the 2011 defense military hospitals. In 1978, could perform the abortions in
authorization bill pending in Congress adopted an annual military settings.
C o n g r e s s i s l a n g u a g e t h a t funding amendment—similar to These objections from military
i l l u s t r a t e s t h e c o n t i n u i n g the Hyde Amendment governing medical personnel
challenge of taxpayer support for spending by the Department of continue—apparently prompting
elective abortions. Included in the H e a l t h and Human some advocates of the Burris
version of the bill that emerged Services—denying the use of amendment to complain that
from the Senate Armed Services f e d e r a l f u n d s f o r e l e c t i v e current conscience protections for
Committee is an amendment abortions in military health medical personnel who reject
sponsored by Sen. Roland Burris programs. participation in abortion should be
(D–IL) that would allow the use With this policy in place, a overridden.
of military facilities around the number of military facilities Moreover, the Burris amendment
world for “pre-paid” abortions. overseas, particularly in countries would put the U.S. military in the
The policy at stake has a long where abortion was illegal under unenviable position of possibly
history, but for most of the past local law, established their own for privately funded abortions. (e.g., passage of Obamacare) hiring private doctors willing to
four decades, decisions by various system for “pre-paid” abortions, The 1985 law against direct warranted. perform abortions on bases in
Administrations and laws adopted where the service members or funding for abortion, however, Allowing elective abortions in countries where the practice is
by Congress have limited public dependents provided their own remained in place. Then, in 1995, military hospitals presents a limited or prohibited by law. The
funding for abortions in military funds for the procedure. The Congress stepped in and wrote the whole new set of issues for the impact of such a policy on the
hospitals as well as any use of abortion rate declined but still law that exists today, a statutory Administration. Taxpayer funding public diplomacy objectives of the
those hospitals to perform elective totaled more than 1,300 in one restriction on allowing the use of of the procedure may still be U.S. has not been evaluated.
abortions. The first iteration of the year under the policy. The Reagan DOD facilities for elective barred by law, but allowing Sen. Roger Wicker (R–MS)
policy was President Richard Administration moved in the abortions on the pre-paid basis elective abortions in military recently noted the potential
Nixon’s“federalist” instruction in 1980s to end federal involvement Clinton had authorized. The health facilities would inevitably impact of the Burris amendment
1971, two years before the in funding or promoting abortion. restriction echoed the rationale of involve the use of taxpayer- on an already strained military
Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. In 1985, Congress made the the Reagan Administration that supplied resources and personnel. health care system. Meanwhile,
Wade that legalized abortion a n n u a l a b o r t i o n f u n d i n g allowing elective abortions in The Burris amendment also the Obama Administration has not
nationwide. Nixon directed the a m e n d m e n t f o r t h e D O D s u c h s e t t i n g s w o u l d presents questions of conscience w e i g h e d i n o n t h e B u r r i s
Department of Defense (DOD) to permanent law, and in June 1988 show“insensitivity to the spirit of for military personnel, particularly amendment. To borrow a phrase
ensure that military medical the Reagan DOD issued a formal the Congressionally-enacted administrative staff, who are from a prior phase of this debate,
facilities followed the law of the policy barring the use of military policy of withholding government protected under current law from Burris’s proposal seems to
jurisdiction in which those hospitals and facilities for pre- involvement in the provision of involvement in the procedure. show“insensitivity to the spirit” of
facilities were located. At that paid abortions. abortions.” One of the strongest impetuses for President Obama’s executive
time, a majority of the states and On his first day in office in The Obama Administration has President Clinton’s 1993 directive order on public subsidies for
the District of Columbia had January 1993, President Clinton encouraged, if not led, efforts to was the fact that military medical abortion.
statutes that outlawed abortion undid all of the Reagan-era w e a k e n s e v e r a l l o n g t i m e personnel, trained to provide life- This entry passed through the
under most circumstances. abortion policies he had the congressional limitations on saving medical care on the home Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Under President Ford, the DOD authority to reach, reestablishing abortion funding, backtracking front and in the battlefield, almost
reversed the Nixon policy and the use of military health facilities under pressure when higher stakes uniformly objected to the use of LEFT page 80
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The Electronic Pearl Harbor
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:40:56 PM
Presages about the defeat or even
the destruction of the U.S. by
terrorists and rogue leaders are
usually dismissed as bombastic
rhetoric or self-induced illusions.
The West’s enemies, however, are
working towards the means to
make their prophecies come true.
Electro-Magnetic Pulse attacks
with nuclear weapons detonated at
high altitude and cyber warfare
can enable ostensibly weak
adversaries to deliver a crippling
blow far greater than 9/11.
The discussion about nuclear
terrorism generally focuses on the
potential for a bomb to be set off
on the ground or at low-altitude
with a ballistic missile. Such an
event would kill hundreds of
thousands of people and cause
trillions in damage, but would not
paralyze the country. However,
detonating a nuclear weapon at
high-altitude can do much greater
damage. The explosion at a high-
altitude sets off what is called an
Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP)
that can fry all electronic devices
for hundreds or thousands of
miles depending upon where it
happens.
The Congressional EMP Threat
Commission, chaired by Dr.
William Graham, the former
science advisor to President
Reagan, concluded that the threat
is not fantasy. “I’d have to say
that 70 to 90 percent of the
population would not be
sustainable after this kind of
attack,” Graham said. He
describes post-EMP life as
“something you might imagine
life to be like around the late
1800s but with several times the
population we had in those days,
and without the ability of the
country to support and sustain all
those people.”
One of the most appealing
aspects of an EMP is that it limits
America’s retaliatory capacity and
can be done with relatively little
fingerprints. A missile carrying a
nuclear warhead can be launched
from one of the thousands of
vessels that come to America’s
shores every day. This gives the
U.S. minimal time to detect and
respond and minimizes the traces
that can be used to identify the
attacker’s identity, especially if
terrorists are used as a cover. As
more countries develop nuclear
weapons capabilities, it becomes
even more difficult to pinpoint the
culprit. The marketing of the
Russian Club-K missile system
that enables missiles to be
transported on almost any mobile
platform makes this threat all the
more pressing.
It should not be surprising that
Iran is actively rehearsing how to
carry out an EMP attack given
these advantages. An Iranian
military journal reviews how
vulnerable the West is to such an
attack, stating that “If the world’s
industrial countries fail to devise
effective ways to defend
themselves against dangerous
electronic assaults then they will
disintegrate within a few years.
American soldiers would not be
able to find food to eat nor would
they be able to fire a single shot.”
The Iranian military appears to be
simulating EMP attacks. They are
test-launching Scud missiles from
ships and setting off Shahab-3
medium-range ballistic missiles in
the air. Normal tests are
considered “successful” when
they hit a specific target, but the
mid-air test was said to have
achieved its goal. Dr. Graham
says that the only explanation for
this is that Iran’s goal was to
practice an EMP attack.
The catastrophic potential of such
an attack is not capturing the
attention of America’s elected
officials. Rep. John McHugh (R-
N.Y.) said that “No one seems to
be concerned about it,” noticing
that very few members of the
House Armed Service Committee
had bothered to even attend the
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hearing in July 2008.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, who also
sat on the EMP Threat
Commission and is a top nuclear
expert, says that the 300
transformers that are most vital to
sustaining the power grid can be
secured from an EMP attack for
$200-400 million. If an attack
happens and those units are
destroyed, he believes it will take
at least one year to get the grid
operational again. With an
investment of about $20 billion,
the entire grid could be secured,
he says.
Another method that can be used
to cripple the U.S. is a cyber
attack. Richard Clarke, a senior
counter-terrorism advisor under
the Clinton and Bush
Administrations, has written a
book that warns that an
“electronic Pearl Harbor” could
bring the country to its knees in
15 minutes. He says that
adversaries of the U.S. are already
inserting “logic bombs” into
critical systems that can allow
them to hijacked or disabled in the
future.
Cyber security expert Andrew
Colarik, a lecturer on Information
Systems at the University of
Auckland, says that our
vulnerabilities mean we could be
“transformed periodically into a
third-world country by means of
digital attacks.”
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A Badge of Muslim Courage: Raheel Raza
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/19/2010 11:41:49 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Raheel Raza, a leading
Muslim reformer, award winning
writer, professional speaker,
diversity consultant, documentary
film maker and interfaith
advocate. A founding member of
the Muslim Canadian Congress,
she is the author of Their Jihad . .
. Not My Jihad. Visit her site at
RaheelRaza.com.
FP: Raheel Raza, welcome to
Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today
about the courageous battle you
have been fighting, as a Muslim,
on the frontlines of our battle
against radical Islam. Your
pronouncements against the
Ground Zero Mosque and your
collision with Tariq Ramadan are
the recent examples of your noble
stand for justice and freedom.
Let’s start with your battle
against the Ground Zero mosque
and also the threat you received
from Ground Zero mosque
developer Sharif El Gamal after
your meeting with the organizers
of the mosque in New York.
Raza: Thanks Jamie.
It’s been almost a month since
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At 5:57 p.m. on Monday August
16, 2010, my cell phone rang. The
man asked me: “Is this Raheel
Raza?” I automatically said yes.
He said “I am Sharif El Gamal
– do you remember you dared
jump into a meeting called by
Daisy Khan for 9/11 victims in
New York?” I was a bit shocked
at the tone but I retorted “I was
invited to that meeting.” He said
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However, as soon as the
organizers started speaking, I
knew that this was not about
sincere intentions but a con-job, a
cover-up for a subversive agenda
and all about the money. Ms.
Daisy Khan spent 20 minutes
telling us about her life and work.
Eventually, she came to the
mosque project and said that this
monument (Ground Zero Mosque/
Cordoba Institute/ Park 51) is to
help shape Islam in America. She
also said that the idea has
garnered support not only in the
U.S. but “would be replicated all
over the world.”
She was joined by Mr. Sharif El
curtly, “No, you were not.” I tried hear firsthand what the Ground Gamal, CEO of Soho Properties.
to explain that I went as a guest of Zero mosque was all about, to ask The slick Mr. Gamal took another
a 9/11 widow. “You were not some important questions and to 15 minutes to tell his life story,
invited,” he said again, and then deliver a message that this is not a explaining that he was a born
added: “I am an American and a good idea. American of mixed heritage and
Muslim and may Allah protect When I arrived at the meeting, that he had feelings for the people
you.” These words sent chills there were about 30 people in the in the room. He mentioned that he
down my back. It took only one r o o m , m o s t o f t h e m 9 / 1 1 had been looking for a property in
m i n u t e f o r t h e v e n e e r o f survivors and their families. Some Manhattan since 2002 and that he
‘tolerance’ to be peeled away, and were carrying placards saying had bought this building in 2005.
the reality of the agenda became L O C A T I O N w h i c h t h e y Finally, they opened the meeting
crystal clear. respectfully kept under their up for questions. (Interesting note
I had decided to go to New York chairs. The meeting was chaired in retrospect that neither Mr.
on Tuesday, August 10, to attend by Gerry Bogacz, who is part of Gamal nor Ms. Khan addressed
a meeting hosted by the ASMA the 9/11 Community for Common me the entire evening, although
Society as a guest of Maureen Ground. There were no formal they know who I am).
Basnicki, who is the widow of a 9 introductions of people around the
/11 victim. I wanted to see and table.
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continued from page 73
the U.N. to do this. Indeed, the
U.S. Treasury added the German-
based European-Iranian Trade
Bank AG to its blacklist just last
week. The continued
disengagement by international
companies, the growing role of
the IRGC in Iran’s economy, and
growing dread of potential
military conflict will feed private-
sector flight from Iran. A similar
approach was quite effective in
choking off North Korea’s illicit
global business activities in 2005.
#*#Bolster the flagging Green
Movement with a full-throated
human-rights campaign against
the Iranian regime -- ideally led
by human-rights NGOs. Such a
campaign could be a means to
protect and empower dissidents.
Perhaps with breathing space
enabled by international scrutiny,
the movement can regain its
footing, thus forcing the regime to
defend itself on another front.
#*#Promote digital dissidents by
providing the technology
necessary to circumvent Iran’s
Internet controls and its attempts
to undercut the opposition’s
communications. The Obama
administration has started on this
path by allowing general licenses
for the export of some technology
to Iran, but the campaign must be
more active -- a 21st-century
Berlin airlift to facilitate the
movement of information in both
directions across Iran’s borders.
The United States should
generously fund the Falun Gong’s
Global Internet Freedom
Consortium, which has provided
dissidents around the world with
technologies to circumvent state
controls, and should creatively
enlist the participation of the
Iranian-American community.
This would give real meaning to
Secretary Clinton’s Internet-
freedom agenda and momentum
to the democracy activists in and
outside of Iran.
#*#In concert with interested
international partners, threaten the
mullahs and the IRGC with an
international hunt for assets
owned by regime leaders, as a
complement to existing sanctions
on those leaders. The Iranian
regime and security establishment
have made fortunes off the people
of Iran. A focus on assets held
outside of Iran by the regime’s
key leaders, and the
accompanying exposure of
corruption and kleptocracy, would
threaten both those leaders’
legitimacy and their finances. It
could also make certain regime
members more willing to cut
deals with us and influence
decisions internally in the
direction of de-escalation.
#page
#*#Promote international scrutiny
on Iran’s support for terrorist
proxies and militias, despite
international disagreement about
labeling groups like Hezbollah
and Hamas terrorists. The United
States should request that the
U.N. committees responsible for
dealing with terrorism -- in
particular the U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1267 al-
Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions
Committee -- report on Iranian
support for the Taliban and
explain what the Iranians are
doing with senior al-Qaeda
leadership in Iran. Highlighting
Iran’s terrorist sponsorship will
make it harder for the regime to
continue that support and will
underscore the danger of nuclear
terrorism and proliferation should
Iran acquire atomic weapons.
#*#Maintain a credible military
option, as the Bipartisan Policy
Center has recently
recommended. This will keep the
possibility of force in the mind of
the Iranian regime and reassure
81
our allies. Credible
demonstrations of U.S. military
reach, such as naval exercises,
become important as we push the
international community to take
more difficult steps -- and perhaps
ask the Israelis not to attack
Iranian nuclear sites.
#ad#Engagement with Iran works
only when we are dealing from a
position of strength. With the
clock ticking and concerns over
an Israeli strike rising, we must
deploy a multidimensional
strategy. The financial-pressure
campaign is a strong cornerstone
for those efforts, but it’s only a
start. To stop Iran from building
nuclear weapons, we must use
every weapon at our disposal.
-- Juan C. Zarate is a former
deputy national-security adviser
for combatting terrorism and a
former assistant secretary of the
Treasury for terrorist financing
and financial crimes. He is now a
senior adviser at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies
and the senior national-security
analyst for CBS News. This
article first appeared in NR's
October 4 issue. Juan C. Zarate
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Heritage Meets the
Is the U.S. Still the Land of Opportunity? Guardians of Campus-
Karen Campbell (The Foundry: innovating new useful products, Progressive Sensitivities
Conservative Policy News.) services, or processes. Douglas Ernst (The Foundry:
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:08:41 AM The GEDI gives countries a new Conservative Policy News.)
tool to assess economic
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:00:58 PM
The Global Entrepreneurship and development. It can hopefully be
Development Index (GEDI) an early warning sign and provide Posted September 20th, 2010 at
report by researchers at the Small insight where policy could be 2:00pm in Ongoing Priorities
Business Administration shows most constructive. The full index, Print This Post
that the U.S. may be slipping in methodology, rankings, and Palm Beach State College
its ability to sustain productive discussion will be published later activities director(and Michael
entrepreneurship relative to other this year by Edger Elgar Moore Facebook fan) Olivia
countries. Publishing. A book launch for the Morris-Ford is on camera shutting
Entrepreneurship plays a critical index will be held at The Heritage down a Young Americans for
role in the formation of any Foundation in January 2011 Freedom booth during the
economy; it is the critical agent in followed by a conference jointly school’s rush week earlier this
the productive creation and sponsored by George Mason month. The reason? The students
destruction cycle necessary for University, the Mercatus Center, were handing out Heritage
any dynamic economy. Public
U.S., though, is its ranking on the entrepreneurship and channeling and Heritage to discuss the index, research at a student event.
policy creates an institutional
sub-indices used to construct the i t t o w a r d u n p r o d u c t i v e the state of entrepreneurship data Specifically, it looks like the
environment that can encourage
overall index. These sub-indexes entrepreneurship. While other collection at the country level, and school’s administrators were
or discourage productive
and the components that go into countries have been helping the the potential uses of the index to allergic to Heritage Fact Sheet
entrepreneurship. Government
them can identify where there are entrepreneurial spirit thrive, the address policy questions. Stay #72, titled “The Obama Tax
intervention, though, can also
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Heritage’s Index of Economic
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Freedom.
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Overall, the GEDI ranks the U.S.
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third—falling behind Denmark
c r o w d i n g o u t p r o d u c t i v e wealth than to create wealth by world’s premier internship
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MD: Their books are great, and I
could not have written The Third
Choice without them. But they are
long and academic. Their focus is
on specific historical
manifestations of Islam: jihad,
dhimmitude and anti-Semitism.
They also include large chunks of
primary source material. This is
great for the researcher, but for
many readers it is just too much to
digest. Also, their books don’t
attempt to explain Islam itself as a
total system. One of my central
goals is to make Islam itself clear
and plausible. This is very
necessary. Also I approach the
subject as a theologian – I focus
on ideology: how it shapes
people’s worldview, and how we
can find freedom from it. The
HERITAGE
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of campus-progressive
sensitivities forbid the works of
Heritage’s Center for Legal and
Judicial Studies from appearing
on campus because they conclude
that Obamacare’s health insurance
mandates are unconstitutional?
Heritage’s Dr. Matthew
Spalding’s bestseller We Still
Hold These Truths spoke of
reclaiming America’s founding
principles, but who was the “we”
he wrote about? Obviously not
liberal college administrators
around the country. Like
progressives’ assertion that the
Constitution is a “living
document”, it increasingly
appears that campus speech
codes, rules, regulations, and
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MEDITATION
continued from page 74
Third Choice is a one-stop shop converting, and this is to serve floats right by this clueless and as a spectacular day of terrorism”
for understanding Islam and the Islam and to embrace your own oleaginous pundit. Despite its but as “a day that demonstrated
dhimmi condition. inferiority. setbacks in Iraq, al-Qaeda remains Western strength [and] Islamist
MT: Where and in what ways do The two most characteristic a player and is still in a position to weakness.” This rosy view of
you see dhimmitude at work in psychological traits of the dhimmi wield considerable influence, as current history is no less
the West? are gratitude and humility. We are witness its centralized as-Sahab troubling—because
MD: Gradually, and in countless seeing both these traits shaping media wing that encourages and disarming—than the sinister
ways, the West is accepting that public discourse around Islam. coordinates terrorist activities prevarications of our ideological
Islam deserves to be treated President Obama, for example, around the globe. To argue that it elite. It is the modern form of the
differently and preferentially. We has spoken of the “debt” the West is not operationally relevant and a “glad game,” which consists in
are finding it perfectly normal to owes to Islam. This sense of clear and present danger is to play finding something to celebrate in
make concessions to Islam which indebtedness is being imparted to into its hands. every untoward situation,
would never be made to other our schoolchildren through It is equally disturbing that a described by Eleanor Porter in her
faiths. The “third choice” of my Islamicized history textbooks. generally astute historian like Gil 1913 classic, Pollyanna. It makes
title is the alternative to Troy believes that “the lure of the little difference, really, whether
conversion to Islam or the sword. normal, our addiction to the our intellectuals are cynical or
This is the choice to give up regular routines of our Pollyannish by temperament,
fighting, and surrender to Islam, lives…iPods and iPads, rush bigoted or naïve, since the
and live as a non-Muslim under hours and vacation days” jihadists are given a free pass in
Islamic rule. But there is a price to constitute “America’s—and the either case.
keeping your head without West’s—true victory over Al-
Qa’ida.” Troy goes on to comfort
us with the factoid that terrorism
“is on the wane” and affirms that
approval processes are equally material on campus. Everywhere. “it is worth re-framing 9/11…not
m a l l e a b l e — p r o v i d e d Luckily for students, The Heritage
c o n s e r v a t i v e s a r e n ’ t t h e Foundation’s research and
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now that the story broke). The
response by conservatives should
be to hand out the offensive
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New START’s Blind Spot

Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:00:54 AM

The Senate Foreign Relations

Committee voted last week to
send the new Strategic Arms
LIVE: Watch the
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HP Photosmart eStation Printer Is a Giant Dock for a Little
Android Tablet
Blake Robinson (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 1:27:15 PM
HP is taking one half-step into
tablet computing. Following news
that it had axed plans for an
Android-based tablet in favor of
its newly acquired WebOS, HP
announced today the Photosmart
eStation, a printer with a very
distinct touchscreen.
So distinct, in fact, that little
attention will be paid to the fairly
robust printer that it sits on. The
reason is that this 7-inch
touchscreen detaches to become a
functional tablet mobile-
computing-device-thing. What’s
more, is that it runs on the back of
Android.
The printer serves as a base
station for the tablet, and as far as
all-in-one printers go, it’s well
spec’d. The eStation will crank
out about 30 pages per minute in
black or color, while its flatbed
scanner is capable of 1200 x 2400
dpi scans. Of course, the eStation
is a wireless animal, with built-in
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market in front of the launch of its
WebOS Slate device — which is
scheduled for release next year.
Each unit sold will serve to
accelerate the adoption of tablet-
like devices and, more
importantly, amplify HP brand
cache in the tablet space — an
important factor to consider when
its WebOS Slate hits shelves. At
its $399 price point, the cost of
entry is just low enough that the
eStation could very well find
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New Overdraft Rules: To Opt in or Not to Opt in
(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:42:07 PM
user
Overdraft Fees: Opt in or Out?
By: Kristie Lorette, Quizzle.com
New overdraft rules are in full
effect, leaving many consumers
wondering if it’s best to opt into
now optional overdraft protection
or go without it. Learn what the
Federal Reserve's new overdraft
rules are and how they affect your
checking and savings account
before you make a decision. In
addition, find out about
alternative ways to protect your
accounts from overdraft fees.
New Overdraft Rules
Before the new overdraft rules,
your bank could allow ATM
withdrawals and debit card
purchases, even if you didn’t have
enough money in your account to
cover the charge. Consequently,
the bank would promptly hit your
account with an overdraft fee of
up to $34 for each transaction.
The new law, however, requires
you to opt-in to accept this
protection. Otherwise, the bank
must deny the charge or
withdrawal that would overdraw
your account. If you choose to opt
-in, your bank will continue to
charge you a fee for each
overdraft.
Here’s how overdraft protection
works: let’s say you enjoy a latte
each morning at the corner coffee
shop, costing you $3.50 a pop.
While you think your paycheck
cleared your account, it didn’t.
When you swipe your debit card,
you’re charged $3.50 and because
you don’t have enough funds to
cover the purchase, the bank
charges your account a $34
overdraft fee. So now, that $3.50
cup of coffee costs you $37.50.
And if you don’t catch the
mistake in time and continue to
charge purchases, you will incur
further overdraft fees for each
purchase you make.
The Alternatives
You may agree that some type of
overdraft protection is a good
idea. After all, stuff happens.
Before deciding to opt-in for the
automatic overdraft option,
however, call your bank and ask if
there are alternatives available.
For example, some banks offer an
Finance/ 87
annual overdraft protection
service. You’ll pay a yearly fee
for the service, but it's nominal
and often lower than a single
overdraft fee.
The second option is to link your
savings account with your
checking account as overdraft
protection. Many banks offer this
as a free option for protecting
your checking account from
possible mishaps. If your
checking account becomes
overdrawn, money from your
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savings will automatically transfer
to your checking account to cover
the amount. Of course, you have
to have enough money in your
savings account to cover the
overdrawn amount for this to
work.
What to Do
If you have a savings account and
checking account at the same
bank, then linking the two
accounts as free overdraft
protection is your best bet. If this
isn’t an option, then inquire about
an annual overdraft program. If
you rarely overdraw your account,
then stay put – your purchases
will be declined in an overdraft
situation, but you won’t get hit
with overdraft fees.
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